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...rejoiced at seeing birding referred to as "hotter than ever" on your cover, and I agree that a passion for birds leads to a concern for their habitat. Last September I testified before Congress as part of an effort to catalog private conservation success stories, including Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, the Natural Bridge of Virginia, Cypress Bay Plantation in South Carolina and the Roney Land and Cattle Company in California...
...pirates of the Caribbean didn't get "rapin' overtime" b) salary demands weren't met c) Chip 'n Dale not given domestic-partner benefits d) won't rehire Flash Mountain...
...Tumen river divides North Korea and China along more than 500 km, rushing through broad valleys dotted with ramshackle farming villages and soaring mountain slopes of pine, fir and birch. In some places it pinches into a stream so narrow you can toss a stone to the other bank or wade across, at least before the summer rains start. Kim Kyung Sun has been back and forth so many times he has lost count. Last week he crossed into China from the North Korean side once again?he hopes for the last time...
...Since famine first started driving North Koreans across the border in the mid-'90s, they have been the world's invisible refugees. They live in hiding with relatives, in clandestine safe house in border towns or in remote mountain hideouts, trying to stay a step ahead of the Chinese police?and the dreaded North Korean agents. In recent months, however, their situation has grown more desperate. China has launched a broad crackdown on the North Koreans, who are considered refugees by the rest of the world but illegal aliens by Beijing. In Yanji, in eastern Jilin province, North Korean families...
...When Erik and the team began the final ascent from Camp 4?the camp he describes as Dante's Inferno with ice and wind?they had been on the mountain for two months, climbing up and down and then up from Base Camp to Camps 1, 2 and 3, getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment?especially oxygen canisters?to make a summit push. They had tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed...