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...they are sold as "an anesthetic and a salubrious chew." The porters I hired chewed these leaves to alleviate pain or sickness while hiking the steep trails. Chewing coca leaves is as much a part of South America's culture as drinking Coca-Cola is to ours. Eradicating coca-leaf farms would be stamping out part of another culture. Getting rid of coca leaves will not miraculously eliminate cocaine as a problem. AMY WONG Saratoga, Calif...
...wilderness? Since each region is unique, strategies have to account for local conditions, says Rabinowitz, who helped set up a jaguar reserve in Belize and a national park in Myanmar. In Hkakabo Razi National Park in northern Myanmar, Rabinowitz discovered that locals were hunting wildlife, particularly red pandas and leaf deer, in far greater numbers than were needed for food. People were swapping the skins with Chinese traders for salt, which does not occur naturally in the area. So Rabinowitz instituted a salt-distribution program. At a cost of less than $5,000 a year, the 3,000 people...
Only a slip back into recession--the dreaded double dip--could take stocks much lower, says Straszheim. For that reason, he and others worry about the latest tea-leaf readings. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of just 1% in the second quarter, down from a 5% clip in the first quarter. And the recovery in manufacturing appears to be slowing. Such worries helped erase part of the market's recent gains, as the Dow fell 230 points on Thursday and an additional 193 points on Friday...
Richard Savage kneels in the rich brown earth of a field on the outskirts of Pyongyang and reverentially spreads out the broad, green leaf of a young paulownia tree. The saplings have been in the ground for only a month but already they are a meter high; the first harvest could take place in just five years. Eyes shaded by his black cowboy hat, the Singaporean native gazes down the rows of juvenile trees, each worth thousands of dollars at maturity, with a satisfied grin. The experimental lumber crop has survived the harsh North Korean winter and is flourishing...
...past five years, the U.S. has got Bolivia to uproot almost all of its coca shrubs--only to see Morales, 42, and his left-wing Movement to Socialism engineer an astonishing protest this year that could force Bolivia's next government to let the plants flourish again. "The coca leaf," says Morales, whose party took the second largest bloc of seats in parliamentary elections in June, "is our new national flag...