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...track him down. "Capturing him would be an immense blow, striking at his image of invincibility and impregnability," says Lucio Carluccio, commander of Italy's anti-Mob police investigative unit. Michele Prestipino, the Palermo magistrate who oversees the investigative unit set up specifically to hunt Provenzano, says secrecy is the key to the Mob leader's elusiveness. So while the boss has "the entire organization at his disposal" to run Cosa Nostra's economic activities, including construction contracting, drug trafficking and extortion, Prestipino explains that only a handful of confidants know Provenzano's whereabouts at any given time...
Highlights from six years of TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda from the 1998 embassy bombings to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan...
...cats, by nature, are territorial, live in low densities and hunt their prey over vast stretches of land (a tiger in the Russian Far East roams over 400 sq. mi., and a cheetah in Namibia will traverse 600 sq. mi.). A wildlife reserve has to be huge to support such animals, and even large parks can contain just so many of the fiercely territorial creatures. Big cats that roam or live outside reserves increasingly find themselves on turf staked out by farmers, herders and loggers, especially in parts of Africa and Asia where the human population is booming. Wild prey...
...moving toward a new model of mixed landscapes in which big cats would move from core protected areas through land shared with humans--tea plantations in India, ranchland in Laikipia or, in the case of the cougar (a.k.a. mountain lion), suburban parks in California--giving them more space to hunt and disperse their genes. "We need to think big, to save entire landscapes," says Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration for the W.C.S. "They may not all be areas where big cats can live, but they are areas big cats...
Spanish Treasure Hunt...