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What has worked before, however, is noncaptive breeding programs. In the mid-1990s the Florida panther, a subspecies of the mountain lion, had been reduced to 30 to 50 animals that were showing hallmarks of inbreeding, including kinked tails and deformed sperm. In 1995 eight female cougars from Texas were transported to Florida and let loose. They began breeding with their endangered Floridian cousins. Last April, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials declared the program a success, estimating the genetically healthy population at 80 to 100 animals. Alas, the Iberian lynx has no suitable relative to reinvigorate its stock...
...dishwashers and flush toilets and the hydropower that keeps refrigerators and home computers humming. Caught off guard, political leaders and water-resource managers have been turning to scientists for help. What do researchers know about patterns of drought in North America? What do they think occurred in the mid-1990s when a big chunk of the West abruptly veered from wet to dry? And do they believe that the current shortfall of precipitation is just a temporary dry spell or an ominous realignment of the earth's climate system...
When 2004 Nieman fellow Susan Orlean began researching the arcane world of rare-flower piracy in the mid-1990s, she was less than immediately successful, as she explained to a capacity audience of Summer School students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium on Monday...
...Indeed, to ensure that the country averts a face-losing performance on home ground, China's leaders are again revving up the sports machine, ending a reformist era during which the mainland began to take a more humanistic approach to sports. In the mid-1990s, amid a greater societal push for individual freedom, China reformed a punishing training system that had forced millions of children into athletic servitude just like the Soviet machine, which was its model. Chinese athletes were given extra help in attending university after retirement, and financial incentives offered the nation's sports stars a reason beyond...
...whole thing is the result of the bad reputation Islam has these days," says Zdenek Vojtísek of the Society for the Study of Sects and New Religious Trends. "A simple man sees a terrorist in a Muslim and a center of terrorism in a mosque." Since the mid-1990s, Czech society has grown somewhat more tolerant; two mosques and about six prayer halls have sprung up around the country, catering for the republic's roughly 20,000-strong Muslim population. But after 9/11, tolerance gave way to fears of militance, which the country's Muslims have worked...