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...Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives...
...reason, says Marshall Jones, assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a leader of the U.S. delegation to the conference, is that "the ivory ban is one of the best, most effective measures CITES has ever undertaken." During the 1980s, when poachers killed an average of 200 African elephants a day for their tusks, the population plummeted to an estimated 625,000, down from 1.3 million in 1979. Since the ban went into effect, the population has fallen only slightly...
Limiting sales to Japan, as the three African nations propose, doesn't make the plan any more appealing to critics. Japan's internal controls for distinguishing legal ivory from contraband are seriously flawed, says the Fish and Wildlife Service's Jones. "Their registration system is being flagrantly not followed." That wouldn't matter as much if international inspectors could somehow determine the origin of a piece of ivory. But while scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service have been experimenting with ways to do that, they've proved unsuccessful...
...cooperation on the things that we hold to be very important," said Tom Daschle. "We just think it's premature." Democrats may block Thompson's efforts to begin hearings next month. Several of his key witnesses have already left the country. These 19, Senate aides say, are smaller fish, mostly monks and nuns at a Buddhist temple who gave the DNC money after a notorious fund-raiser attended by Gore. Investigators are betting they acted as "straw donors" (foils) for wealthy foreign contributors. Meanwhile, some big fish may be falling. Rep. Gerald Solomon, chairman of the House Rules Committee, said...
...anyone seeking a risk-free vacation should never venture south of Disney World. Down here, you could get impaled on a shark's tooth while snorkeling, punched out by flying fish while Jet Skiing or gouged by watery margarita vendors on famous Duval Street. The chance of a little friendly fire--and the military assures us it will be the chummiest fire available--can only add zest to your missile-launch viewing...