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...even harder to kill than the fish. Faced with snakehead sightings in six other states, the Bush Administration--its hands arguably full with the war on terrorism, the Wall Street meltdown and the ongoing parade of corporate scandals--took time out last week to handle the slippery creature, dispatching Interior Secretary Gail Norton to announce plans to seal the porous U.S. borders against the importation of any more snakeheads. "These fish are like something from a bad horror movie," Norton intoned darkly last Tuesday...
...what's all the hand wringing about? It might just be a too little, too late effort to do something about the larger problem of nonnative species. The measure Norton invoked last week, the Lacey Act, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to identify "injurious wildlife." The problem is, when you're looking for those things, it's hard to know where to begin. There are 200,000 species of organisms (excluding bacteria and protozoa) in the U.S., and at least 7,000 of them were introduced artificially. The coyote didn't start here, nor did the hog, the sparrow...
...taboo that has been relaxed is the one against an older woman with a younger man. Twice-divorced Sally Salners, 54, a Houston interior designer, says she receives support and encouragement from friends and family for her two-year relationship with her 33-year-old boyfriend, a sales consultant. They got to know each other when Salners helped him decorate his apartment...
...this exurban behemoth (larger than the city of Denver itself, it covers 53 sq. mi.), with its tentlike spires and cavernous, convention-hall interior, has its user-unfriendly quirks. Passengers who are dropped off at the airport by cab or rental-car van find themselves, for some odd reason, at the exit. To reach the ticket counter, they have to lug their bags up an escalator. The three gate concourses are connected by a train system that is fast and convenient--except when it's not working (which lately has not been very often and usually for only short periods...
...ascend the tomb's stepped granite blocks to the mouth of the crypt. A bored-looking Chinese guide watches me curiously as I examine the dank and empty hulk of the pyramid's interior. In a sign of deference, Chinese and South Korean banknotes and coins are strewn across the stone slabs of what are ostensibly the sarcophagi of Changsu and his consort. It's a telling display of the two national claims on the site. Hearing of my interest in Koguryo, the guide challenges me, eager to gauge my opinion on a controversial subject. "Was Koguryo a Chinese...