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...survey by Conservation International found 37 wilderness areas left that have at least 70% of their original vegetation intact, are at least 10,000 sq km in size and have a human population of no more than 5 people per sq km. These "last wild places," as the group calls them, cover 46% of the land surface of the planet. With all the resources and strategies at our disposal, much of this precious territory can still be saved...
Several times. They've asked me to run for the House and the Senate, but I've always managed to keep my virtue intact. I mean, who wants to hang out with those kind of people? Look at J.C. Watts--I've met him, he's a good kid, and I'm sorry he's leaving, but he wants to go to his kid's Little League games! If you're a father, that kind of rips your heart out. I respect that. I talked with Colin Powell two years ago or so--we were in Philadelphia, having...
Biology, alas, is rarely so straightforward. Researchers came to realize that it wasn't safe to give estrogen alone to a woman with an intact uterus. Unopposed estrogen, as it is called, dramatically increases the chances that a woman will develop uterine cancer. (Obviously, this isn't a problem for women who have undergone hysterectomies.) The addition of progestin, another female hormone, seemed to take care of that problem...
...injured tens of thousands. It has formally backed peace since the 1998 Good Friday agreement, but even so, many players in the peace process are skeptical. The reason: even in peacetime, the I.R.A. is still the formidable force that Britain could not defeat. Most of its weapons remain intact. Its secretive members are staying active by gathering intelligence about potential targets and assaulting alleged criminals in territory it controls. I.R.A. members are also thought to have a hand in the sectarian clashes that have recently gripped Belfast. A year ago, three suspected I.R.A. activists were arrested in Colombia after reportedly...
...York Times, is that "an Iraq under new governance could become a new Western ally, helping to reduce American dependency on bases in Saudi Arabia, to secure Israel's eastern flank and act as a wedge between Iran and Syria." The idea of a democratic Iraq remaining intact as a single national entity, let alone becoming an overnight ally of the West, is at the very least regarded with some skepticism. And talk of a democratic Arab state "securing Israel's eastern flank" seems more than a little fanciful - those Arab states that have made peace with Israel are anything...