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...Lankans seem to have quickly forgotten the spirit of cooperation that flickered briefly after the tsunami. Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring...
...most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there are more people, more roads, more human control over the earth," says expedition co-leader Bruce Beehler, of the environmental NGO Conservation International. "It's nice to know there are a few places we haven't got a grip...
...Long-Lost Kin While the endangered GOLDEN-MANTLED TREE KANGAROO is known to exist on a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea, this was the first time it had been found in Indonesia. The explorers say the Indonesian population could prove critical to the survival of the species...
...else is blamed? CAVR also accuses the U.S. and other nations of failing to stop Jakarta. The report says that American weaponry, supplied to Indonesia as an important Cold War ally, were crucial to the occupation. U.S. President Gerald Ford met with Indonesian President Suharto on the eve of the Dec. 7, 1975, invasion, and?according to declassified U.S. security documents?gave his tacit acceptance of the operation...
...Length of Paedocypris progenetica, the world's smallest fish, whose discovery was announced last week 3 Recorded pH level of the fish's Indonesian swamp habitat, 100 times more acidic than rain...