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...dogs, some 55 million years ago. There are five surviving rhino species -- black, white, Sumatran, Indian and Javan -- all of them endangered because of poachers who kill them for their horns. Africa's black, or hooked-lipped, rhino (Diceros bicornis) is the latest to land on the endangered list. In 1970 there were 65,000 of the beasts roaming the rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe. The Zambezi Valley, with more than 500 animals, now holds the world's last viable breeding herd. To defend...
...helpful antibiotic commonly used to treat cuts and abrasions. But now the substance has ended up in the middle of a bruising bureaucratic scrape. Last week a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that it lacked authority to order the Environmental Protection Agency to remove bacitracin from a list of 406 hazardous substances, where EPA officials concede that the drug landed by mistake...
Given the task, a legion of angels would have helped. The shopping list was gargantuan: for San Antonio, 10,000 volunteer ushers; for Columbia, S.C., ten miles of crowd-control rope; for Miami, a call-up of 2,400 National Guardsmen; for Phoenix, 150,000 silver-hued crucifixes for distribution before and during Mass; for New Orleans, 1,500 potted mums for the altar and 1,700 portable toilets carted in from all over the South. Scores of committees have been working for two years and more planning the Pope's nine-city tour, and still not everything could...
...list of Soviet minorities testing glasnost grew by three last week as demonstrators in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia openly marked the 48th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet secret protocol that led to Soviet annexation of the three independent Baltic nations in 1940. Altogether, several thousand people took to the street to chant freedom slogans and sing patriotic songs...
...uninterrupted rule by P.R.I., a Mexican President has had virtually a free hand in choosing his successor as the party's nominee. This year, however, a dissident faction known as the Democratic Current has clamored to open P.R.I.'s nomination process. In response, party officials drew up a short list of candidates. But the rebels are not impressed. "It's a grand show," said Democratic Current Leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. "Nothing has changed...