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...Service, it was close to collapse. Ivory poachers were killing hundreds of elephants annually, and staff morale was miserable. Leakey sacked corrupt rangers, brought in millions of dollars from international donors and helped enforce a ban on the ivory trade. "He has an ability to wake people up," says Joe Kioko, a deputy director at the Wildlife Service who has worked in Kenya's national parks for 31 years. "If you're good and get results, he'll give you all the support you need. But if you're useless, there's no room for you. He can't stand...
Well, maybe--except the coming broadband Web seems expressly designed to hasten the demise of Viacom's broadcast-media landscape. "I don't understand how the [TV] networks get bigger," says Joe Krause, senior vice president of content at Excite@Home, one of the broadcast world's likelier rivals. "I only know how they get smaller...
...hour before the biggest game of his life, Joe Aleffi lay on his back inside the Swarthmore College field house, staring at the ceiling. Aleffi, a senior running back for Swarthmore's football team, the Garnet Tide, had spent the morning listening to Metallica and trying to calm himself. "This is the most excited I've ever been for a game," he said. "I had trouble sleeping last night." Other Swarthmore players nearby strapped on their pads in silence. The night before, one had gone to the center of the field to meditate alone in the darkness...
What Representative Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.), House Science Committee chair James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.), Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) and others want to know is, has Rubin been engaging in "threatening and harassing" telephone calls and e-mails to the residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste-treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David...
...candidates for School Committee are Alfred Fantini, Michael Harshbarger, Denise Simmons, Alice Turkel, Melody Brazo, Jamiseon Patterson, Alvin Thompson, Susana Segat, Nancy Walsen, Joe Grassi, Elizabeth Kinney, Shawn Burke and Don Harding...