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...succession of plans to reintroduce the animal to Yellowstone and other parts of the West have become mired in controversy. Even though a majority of Westerners favor the return of wolves, formidable opposition comes from local ranchers and hunting outfitters who fear that the predators will kill livestock and deplete game and that tight restrictions will be placed on land use as a way of protecting the animal's habitat. The ranchers see the wolf as their own version of the spotted...
Wolf advocates respond that before the turn of the century, the West had hundreds of thousands of wolves, which began killing livestock only after hunters slaughtered most of the bison, elk and other prey. Yellowstone's superintendent, Robert Barbee, points out that the situation is now dramatically different: the park and surrounding wilderness have more elk and deer than at any time since the white man went west. One conservation group, the Defenders of Wildlife, is so confident that wolves will stick to abundant wild game that it has unveiled a plan to compensate ranchers for losses to wolf attacks...
Northern Africa was a somewhat wetter place five millenniums ago, and the land was fertile in a broad swath on either side of the Nile. Many Egyptians still lived in huts made of papyrus or mud; raised wheat, barley and livestock; and paid homage to the local chiefs. Within just a few hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created...
Conservationists have lobbied for years to reintroduce gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park. The predators, they say, are an important part of the ecosystem, thoughtlessly wiped out some 60 years ago. No way, say nearby ranchers: wolves are vermin that gobble up livestock and profits. But the terms of the debate have changed. A hunter has shot one of a pack of five animals just south of the park. If they are wolves, and not wolf-dog hybrids, they probably migrated from Montana. The conventional scientific wisdom said they would make the trip eventually -- just not this soon...
...north and east along the banks of the Danube River, the stench of decomposing livestock, pets and people wafted through the rubble-strewn streets of Vukovar. Through 12 weeks of fighting, 58,000 townspeople had fled. The 12,000 who remained behind cowered in the town's cellars and sewers, rolling cigarettes from tea leaves and burning strips of doused cloth for light. "This is hell," Vesna Vukovic, a Croatian television reporter, pleaded over the airwaves. "We just cannot stand it anymore...