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...Unreported capital gains: $9.1 billion. That figure, which has quadrupled in the past decade, includes not just undeclared stock-market transactions but profits from the sale of homes, art, gold, jewelry and livestock...
...desolate plains of eastern Australia. Plows rest immobile in their sheds; paddocks remain withered and empty. For day after enervating day, nothing relieves the silence but the whine of hot, fierce winds whirling precious topsoil into dust clouds and the occasional squawks of crows wheeling above the carcasses of livestock...
...made 15 ft., eleven years later, Warmerdam had done it 43 times. He held the world record 15 years. "Of course I go back to when the pole was a pretty stable instrument," he explains. Warmerdam's first bolt of bamboo carried him over high hedges and cringing livestock all across his father's spinach farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. His records were built of bamboo; steel and aluminum poles came along in the '50s, fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record has been improved by leaps and sproings...
...across the U.S. It is now all but except in a few untrampled regionslike the north of Minnesota. Some 1,200 wolves roam freely in the north woods roam freely in the area, as much to the chargin of farmers, who argue that the canines are a threat to livestock. Says Delmer Schroeder of Embarrass, Minn., who has lost three calves, as well as three dogs, in the past five years: "They're coming right into the yards. Before long one of them is going to attack our children...
Many environmentalists are worried about a further loosening of protection. They deny that wolves are a major threat to livestock, arguing that most of the reported kills are probably the work of coyotes. They also fear that even a limited hunt will disrupt the intricate social structure of wolf packs and cause unpredictable predatory behavior. More than a dozen environmental groups, including one called HOWL (for Help Our Wolves Live), say they will sue the Federal Government if it lets Minnesota declare an open season on wolves...