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...20th century plague of hunting and lead poisoning brought Gymnogyps californianus to near extinction. Biologists trapped the last wild California condor in 1987, and 27 birds remained as genetic "founders" for a breeding program that has produced 25 additional birds, including the two freed last week...
...California the lives of the freed condors will be "managed." Stillborn calves left on mountains might keep the birds from flying to flatland sources of toxic food, and moving the carrion around will force natural foraging behavior. Biologists assume that intensive care is temporary. "Right now, we are this species' surrogate parents," says Robert Measta, head of U.S. Fish and Wildlife condor operations. "In the old days, adult condors did this job." With luck, someday they will again...
Five months ago, city officials introduced rationing, which at least enabled most people to buy staples like bread, butter, milk and, occasionally, meat. But when Russian President Boris Yeltsin freed prices on Jan. 2, most food except bread virtually disappeared from stores. On the city's once elegant Nevsky Prospekt, shoppers at a small grocery store stared bleakly at cans of Finnish sardines, lollipops and American M&M candies. With prices freed, costs soared tenfold against an average salary that stayed at 400 rubles a month: sausage now costs 100 to 200 rubles a kilo (2.2 lbs.), and even sour...
...across Russia last week, long-suffering consumers came face to face with the free market, as the government began one of the most daring economic reforms ever undertaken anywhere. Boris Yeltsin had freed prices, and was setting the country on a crash course toward a market system. The prices of a few basic commodities, such as bread and gasoline, remained controlled -- though they tripled or quadrupled overnight. But those of all other products were simply set free for the first time in more than seven decades...
Russians are now waiting for their new government to deliver Yeltsin's version of reform. As a first step, most prices are to be freed from government control this week, although the cost of basics like bread, milk, salt, medicine and vodka will still be regulated. The results may be no more satisfactory than those of perestroika because many state-run monopolies, including wholesale and retail suppliers, retain their paralyzing grip on the distribution system. With hyperinflation a real threat, much of the population feels menaced by poverty as well as hunger this winter...