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Rupert's organization has plans for eight more such parks. By year end he will launch the first phase of a giant park straddling South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The GKG (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou) Peace Park will eventually have an area of nearly 38,600 sq. mi., the size of Portugal. More than 350 Mozambicans are being trained in game management and ranger work to provide for an expected increase in tourism to the new area. "I'm a realist who believes in miracles," says Rupert. "The secret is not to do things for people but to do things with...
...rival. Arizona Senator John McCain wants to force the new President to sign a campaign-finance-reform bill that Bush hates--and make him do it before he deals with any other legislation, including education, taxes and all the other items on Bush's wish list. McCain plans to launch the campaign-finance debate just two days after the Inauguration. In other words, even before Bush battles with Democrats over his controversial Cabinet appointees, his first legislative fight may be with his own party. How's that for a honeymoon...
...success. Senator Thad Cochran, the Mississippi conservative, joined McCain's crusade on Thursday, bringing to 10 the number of Republicans who support the reform bill. If all 50 Senate Democrats back it, McCain will have the 60 votes needed to close down the filibuster his G.O.P. colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for G.O.P. Senators, says Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign-finance legislation. "We're going to have to deal with campaign-finance reform this year whether the President-elect likes...
Modern medicine has engaged disease-causing microbes in an escalating arms race, so that as soon as drug developers launch a new weapon--an antibiotic, for example--their microbial foes respond by shoring up their own defenses. Sometimes bacteria and parasites undergo random mutations that spontaneously confer resistance. More frequently, they acquire survival-enhancing characteristics in the process of exchanging DNA with other microbes that have already developed resistance...
...results are encouraging. The drug works best on people with the least nerve damage; its only apparent side effect is that it exacerbates PMS in some women. PhyloMed hopes to launch a more advanced clinical trial on Canadian MS patients early this year. Meanwhile, a British researcher has just begun testing the drug's effectiveness against adrenomyeloneuropathy, another debilitating central-nervous-system disorder...