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...federal act was to get animals to the point at which they could be removed from the list. In the case of the grizzly, the outlook is even brighter than the population numbers suggest. The original bear-recovery plan put together by the FWS called for a minimum of 15 cub-bearing females every year. Yellowstone easily exceeds that, averaging 40 for each of the past six years. What's more, those mothers are not in just one cub-friendly part of the park but are dispersed throughout it, another important benchmark. Overall, the population has been expanding some...
...formed in 1994 and committed to advancing Catholic values. Aquinas has thrown its relatively modest financial weight--it manages some $170 million-- behind the pro-life cause, arguing in its promotional literature that "investing in companies that are involved in abortions would be material cooperation with evil at a minimum." In addition to lobbying Whirlpool and other firms that once donated to Planned Parenthood, Aquinas leans on drugmakers, hospitals and insurance companies whose stock the funds own to quit offering contraceptives or abortion services. Aquinas joined other investors in petitioning executives at Disney and Best Buy until both companies took...
...Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, and they were riveting. In a rat-a-tat-tat strafe of global Christianity, he asserted that traditional Protestantism is in "profound crisis," that evangelicalism owes its popularity to a "certainty" that he said derives from its willingness to settle for a "minimum of faith," and that although Catholicism "isn't in such bad shape," the West is "a world that is tired of its own culture ... that has arrived at a time in which there's no more evidence of the need for God, much less Christ, and in which it seems that...
...minimum, the PAL ridge will have to be redesigned. Currently, foam in that area is applied by hand instead of machine, which had seemed like the better method but clearly may not be. Engineers might also replace the ridge with a metal guard. "There is a very good chance the impact on the next flight could be minimal," says Phil Engelauf of the mission operations team. Still, the September flight of Atlantis will almost surely be delayed. How badly the schedule will back up after that is unknown...
...Current minimum value of gifts that require disclosure...