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Imagine what's to come. The pine beetle infestation is just one example of global warming's present danger. It also represents the unique challenges that warming will pose for land conservation managers on the front lines of the battle against it. Generations of American conservationists have fought to preserve wildlife and to keep nature pristine in the face of a growing population and pollution. To a remarkable extent, they've succeeded - almost 16% of the entire landmass of the U.S. is protected, and the Endangered Species Act has helped save countless animals from extinction. But global warming threatens...
...most stunning sports business success stories. For the first time a live MMA fight will be broadcast on one of the big four networks, an extraordinary feat for a sport that, just 10 or so years ago, was roundly derided as "human cockfighting." At first, the caged bouts were fought in the shadows, since the sport was banned in almost every state (it is now sanctioned in 33). But MMA now draws strong ratings on the cable channel Spike TV, and is a money-maker on pay-per-view; in 2007, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, MMA's dominant promoter, secured...
...america's promise as a land of opportunity as explicitly as the GI Bill. When it was signed in June 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the policy's official name) offered a college scholarship to all those who had served in uniform, whether or not they had fought on the front lines. In the decades since, benefits have fallen far behind the cost of university tuitions, prompting Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel to draft a new GI Bill that would offer soldiers full tuition at any state school...
...Many Sinaloans hail the traffickers as heroes, saying they have fought hard to bring wealth to the hardscrabble region, and crediting them with helping the poor by rebuilding houses, buying medicine and handing out extravagant Christmas gifts. Their exploits are celebrated in song in narco corridos or drug ballads, which are banned on radio and television but are immensely popular on the street, where the gunslingers are often referred to valientes, or brave ones - and stores with names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups...
...Noida murders also reveal deeper flaws in Indian policing and the country's media. Critics have renewed calls for the press to conform to proposed legislation that would regulate journalistic standards, a bill the media has fought. Some experts hope that public outrage over the conduct of the investigation will build and ensure that the case gets transferred to India's Central Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to do a better job than the police. In the long run, India's police will need to clean up its act. However it is resolved, the Noida investigation could well...