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...time the river reached them on July 13, Nick and Crystal Goedereis had removed everything possible -- livestock, heirlooms, even portable buildings -- from their 150-acre homestead along the rich banks of the Mississippi near Quincy, Illinois. But they still defiantly spent their last night in sleeping bags on the bare living room floor. "We didn't want to leave," says Crystal. "It was our home...
...verge of wiping the movement out. Pol Pot joined with other anti-Vietnamese forces and launched an ideological campaign based on strident nationalism. His forces dropped all references to building a communist state. Villagers in Khmer Rouge zones were encouraged to cultivate their own plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years of Pol Pot's reign, they suffered far less than urbanites, who were sent to work under harsh conditions in the fields, where they died...
...Soviet Ukraine, is well known by now: an explosion and fire; the death of 31 people from acute radiation exposure and dozens more from diseases plausibly related to milder exposure; the likelihood of a surge in cancers over the next few decades; the poisoning of crops and livestock. The accident and its aftermath, coming less than a decade after the near meltdown at Three Mile Island, also poisoned the world's attitude toward nuclear power...
...CENTRAL FACT OF THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY: steers are more valuable than cows, because mature male cattle carry more beef to sell. Now researchers have announced a technique that may allow breeders to choose the sex of calves -- at conception. Since eggs carry the female X chromosome, an animal's sex is determined by whether the fertilizing sperm carries another X or a male...
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...