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...hard stewards of the earth, there are a handful of institutions that style themselves solely as environmental liberal-arts colleges. Prescott College in Prescott, Ariz., tells prospective students that they will have a chance to do much of their learning in the 1.4 million acres of surrounding national forest. Northland College in Ashland, Wis., encourages hands-on environmentalism. The college's president got into the act herself this summer, spending a month as the sole caretaker and guide at an island lighthouse on Lake Superior...
...analogy to a teenager's fatal attraction to smoking has not been lost on the medical community. Doctors point out new evidence that tanning, whether indoor or out, may be somewhat addictive. Small-scale studies by researchers at North Carolina's Wake Forest University indicate that tanning may trigger endorphins, which could be why sunbathing feels so relaxing and why frequent tanners experience withdrawal-like symptoms if they don't get their regular fix. So public-health officials and consumer advocates are taking lessons from the antismoking movement. Not only are they pushing for laws to curb young people...
...demand may be driving the poaching boom, but conservationists blame New Delhi for failing to protect the tigers. Wright reserves particular ire for the government's 30-year-old showcase conservation effort, Project Tiger, which is widely regarded as understaffed and underfunded. "The government hasn't recruited any new forest staff in 15 years," she says. Remarks Valmik Thapar, one of India's foremost tiger experts and the director of a conservation group called the Ranthambhore Foundation: "The government just doesn't have the will to save the tiger...
...guards and build fences, we also need to find ways to improve the lives of tribals and other poor people." But any gain for people can be a loss for the tiger, and conservationists argue that the tribal communities sometimes assist poaching. "Every tiger that walks into the forest is a cash register," says Wright. "He represents years of funds for every poor person that lives near his habitat." A bill up for debate in parliament this month would allow tribal communities expanded land and building rights in wildlife reserves, which threatens to crowd tigers off their few remaining sanctuaries...
...Often the clan gathers for a popular July 4 barbecue at McCain's cabin in Arizona. But this year McCain canceled the picnic, and the Senator, his wife Cindy and Jimmy went to the Quinault Indian reservation in Washington State. "We went fishing and hiking and enjoyed the rain forest there as well as the salmon fishing, although we didn't catch any salmon," he says. "Cindy and I were able to spend a weekend with him. And it was fine...