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...Though India remains the world's last significant sanctuary for wild tigers, the numbers there are dwindling fast. The country's wild tiger population has dropped from about 100,000 in the 19th century to as few as 1,200 to 1,800 today. In another five years this feline population could plunge to a level-around 500 cats-where in many parts of India it would no longer be able to sustain itself. At that point, they would survive almost exclusively in zoolike safari parks. "India is letting the tiger slip through its fingers," says Belinda Wright, director...
...much a nasty secret as a subject that Americans agreed not to discuss for a time. Some 2.9 million Americans served in Indochina. The majority of them managed to put their lives together after the war ... But nearly 100,000 vets came back with severe physical disabilities: fast evacuation by helicopter and excellent medical care saved thousands of men-many without arms and legs-who might otherwise have died ... BUT THE REAL DEVILS OF THE WAR WORK IN THE MIND. Something like a quarter of those who served may still be suffering from substantial psychological problems. They get flashbacks, nightmares...
...underworld; one dies. Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) has come from Mexico to join U.S. Immigration official Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) with the intent - get this - of stanching the flow and exploitation of illegal farm workers coming up from Mexico. Pablo will pretend to be a bracero looking for a fast way into the country; Jack will cover his back. Border Incident has a liberal heart; it does not blame the Mexican laborers for the problem (who could not love them, when they are represented by Montalban and James Mitchell, both with austere good looks and cheekbones to die for). Instead...
...Which brings me to the bar at Applebee's. The only meaningful difference between casual-dining restaurants and fast-food restaurants is that the former serve alcohol. (My Tuscan Shrimp Salad was nearly as fast as anything I could have eaten at McDonald's: it was delivered in under nine minutes.) But I found the Applebee's bar to be a ripoff. When I asked Cory, my bartender, for a margarita, he said proudly, "We have several!" (Everything said by Applebee's employees is uttered with unnecessary volume and transparently coached enthusiasm.) Cory then presented a huge drinks menu that...
...carried them into a neighboring building. Several more missiles exploded on the road and around the building. The two adults and the boy were lucky to survive, but all had received more wounds. The father's leg was severed by the exploding missile and he was losing blood fast...