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...Rikers island has held New York City's tough-guy prisoners for more than a century, but it is also populated by a much flightier group that stands accused of crimes against New Yorkers: Canada geese. Attracted by the vacant fields and easy access to water, thousands of geese have come to live on the fringes of the island, which is less than a mile from La Guardia Airport. But because the big birds have shown a propensity for colliding with jets - there have been at least 68 Canada-goose strikes in New York State in the past decade...
...Moscow-based SOVA Center, which monitors racially motivated crime in Russia. According to Kozhevnikova, the spike in hate crimes toward black people living in Russia at the end of last year - including one incident in December in the southern province of Volgograd where a black student from Rhode Island survived a brutal stabbing - was related to the attention that the Russian press was giving Obama's election race. But Kozhevnikova adds that since Obama took office in January, racially motivated crimes against black people in Russia have dipped to pre-election levels. "Racism in Russia has always been widespread...
...efforts to curtail the North Korean regime's ability to develop and sell WMD and missiles," says Bruce Klingner, former North Korea analyst at the CIA, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. One of the firms sanctioned, called Hong Kong Electronics and located on Kish Island, Iran, is alleged to have transferred millions of dollars of proliferation-related funds from Iran to North Korean companies already on U.S. and U.N. sanctions lists, according to the Treasury Department. The firm also facilitated the sale of North Korean missiles to Iran, Treasury says. (See pictures of Kim Jong...
...over the past 25 years, the average Soay Island wild sheep has decreased in size, according to a report in the July 2 issue of Science by a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London. Thanks largely to global warming, the winters on Soay Island are becoming shorter and milder. That makes food more abundant and allows some of the smaller, more vulnerable and younger sheep to survive. Then they go on to have offspring that tend to be small themselves - and have a better chance of survival because of the increasingly mild winters. "The environmental...
...Grucci family of Long Island, New York, calls itself "America's first family of fireworks" - and has a solid claim to that title. Since the business began in 1850, Fireworks by Grucci has launched some of the nation's most spectacular pyrotechnic displays, including shows to celebrate the Statue of Liberty centennial, four Olympic Games and seven presidential Inaugurations. TIME spoke with Grucci vice president Phil Butler about this year's Fourth of July...