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...last night’s panel event, Romeo Dallaire, a retired Canadian general who led the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, endorsed GIF’s decision to abstain from supporting weapons purchases. He said that millions of illicit small arms are already circulating in the developing world. “They are not void of weapon systems,” said Dallaire, a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which sponsored last night’s event. “They are void of trucks. They are void...
...Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But while he acknowledges that eagles have a historic place in aboriginal societies, Chang adds, "There are native Americans willing to trade in these parts." And with black-market prices for the parts remaining high, the temptation to join the illicit trade will continue...
...rise of the MP3. The result is a nation of bitter consumers, depressed music sales, and rampant illegal file sharing. There is an iTunes service that, while successful, would have been immeasurably more successful had it been activated years earlier—before the spread of illicit services like Kazaa and Limewire. As it turned out, the recording industry was damaged by its own draconian devices...
...that's $4,800." Census Bureau data support Caudill's notion: 12,481 of the county's 44,362 residents claim some sort of disability. If coal miners gave OxyContin its start in southwestern Virginia, injured steelworkers were among the first to use it in eastern Ohio, where its illicit use remains a serious problem, says Jennifer Bolen, a former federal prosecutor in Tennessee who advises physicians around the country on the laws governing the prescription of potent painkillers...
...pieces rubbed, scratched and broken off it. It's now alleged that the damage was most likely caused by someone making a cast with a special substance that is painted or sprayed on and hardens into a rubbery mold. Equally infuriating to scientists is the possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull so no exact record of it can now be made. "It's simply outrageous," says Peter Brown, the palaeontologist attached to the Morwood team. "It's commercial and intellectual property, and it's a unique cultural relic...