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...resources no faster than they can be regenerated by nature. Governments and private firms should organize projects to show that forests can be used without being obliterated. If trees are cut selectively, forests can yield profits and survive to produce more money in the future. Another way to harvest cash from forests and other habitats is to set up tours and safaris to attract animal lovers and photography buffs. Long a moneymaker in Africa and the Galapagos Islands, this "ecotourism" is spreading to such places as Costa Rica...
...give him a suitable return, because the West is determined not to be intimidated. We've said all along the Soviets have more military than they need. He's responding to our agenda. But we're dealing with a first-rate politician, and he's bound to harvest some political goodwill...
...cheap migrant workers remains available. While the extent of fraud is debatable, its existence is not. "We had applicants flying in from New York," says Mariela Melero, Houston district INS spokeswoman. Some supposed farm workers, when interviewed by INS, described picking chili peppers with ladders or stooping to harvest grapefruit...
There is, cruelly, food to be had. The land is fertile, the rains were good, and this year's harvest will be the best in a decade. But 4 million people are starving because of a civil war that Sudan has inflicted upon itself. Standing between the food and the people are 58,000 government troops and 30,000 rebels of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. On both sides the terrible weapon is increasingly food, not bullets...
...clothing and sends residents into the bush. Then the rebels mine the fields, the houses and the surrounding footpaths so no one can return. The S.P.L.A. even drove displaced people from squalid camps near Juba, forcing them to abandon their crops a second time. The S.P.L.A. reaped the harvest. George Tombe, 32, is a chieftain of Kabo, a village 9 miles west of Juba. The S.P.L.A. stormed Kabo and beat him. "They took everything," he whispers, including the crops. "The harvest was good this year. Now I wait for death...