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...have other sources of income." Safari Club International is worried that since hunting areas are so different, it may be impossible to pass a law that covers them all. "There's no standard to say what is and what isn't fair," says club spokesman Jim Brown. "You know it when...
...environmental consequences. E-waste, electronic gear containing hazardous material, is routinely sold and shipped from the industrialized world to developing countries in Asia for recycling. It's a messy business that "leaves the poorer peoples of the world with an untenable choice between poverty and poison," says Jim Puckett, co-author of the ban report...
...Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy secretary-general of CITES. Under the unified system, the region's governments can demonstrate that "sturgeon numbers are indeed stable or, in some cases, increasing," says Willem Wijnstekers, the agency's chief. And, he adds, the resumption of caviar sales will bring in much-needed funding "so that...
Current council member Jim R. Griffin ’02 said that in the past the proposal demonstrated a “mean spiritedness” because it was done so quickly after the announcement that Radcliffe would be dissolved...
...There are no more camel caravans from Damascus or leaky boat journeys a la Lord Jim. Only pilgrims from Red Sea ports in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen are allowed to come to the Hajj in ships. The rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing...