Word: northerners
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...alone last week. With the refugee camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba reportedly full and no plans for an expansion in the works, the Coast Guard began limiting its rescue efforts to refugees in "imminent danger" of sinking or starving during the 600-mile voyage through the northern Caribbean to Florida. Others were urged to return home but not stopped...
...that gives most of the nation's wealth to a tiny minority of its people. "A person who is worrying about his next meal is not going to listen to lectures on protecting the environment," says R.K. Pachauri, director of New Delhi's Tata Energy Research Institute. What to Northern eyes seems like some of the worst environmental outrages -- felling rain forests to make charcoal for sale as cooking fuel, for example -- are often committed by people who have no other form of income. Yet if the barriers that keep those people poor have withstood wars of liberation and social...
...Bush Administration had hoped to make deforestation a showcase issue going into Rio. The presummit discussions opened with a U.S.-inspired proposal for an outright ban on logging in tropical forests. But the developing countries retaliated by demanding that the language cover temperate and boreal (northern) forests as well. The move was clearly aimed at the U.S., which has strenuously resisted any scrutiny of the logging practices in publicly owned ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest...
...Lujan again revealed his priorities. The so-called God Squad, a Cabinet-level committee of which he is chairman, announced its intention to exempt from the Endangered Species Act timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...required by law, Lujan also released a long-awaited recovery plan for the owl, which would add new restrictions on harvesting lumber in areas of Oregon, Washington and Northern California where the birds build their nests. The plan's economic impact, says Lujan, would be very high: 32,000 jobs lost. Shrewdly, the Secretary also offered an alternative plan that he says would cost just 15,000 jobs. That plan, however, would violate the Endangered Species Act by reducing critical habitat for the endangered bird; it would therefore require congressional approval. In effect, Lujan once again fulfilled his role...