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...thievery is fueled in part by the conservation effort itself. "International rules aimed at preventing the movement of plants and seeds in order to protect them have had unintended consequences," says Dick Wiedhopf, president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America and its Tucson chapter. "They have made [cactuses] more valuable." That explains why wildlife - including cactus - ranks just below drugs and guns as the most popular good smuggled out of Mexico, according to experts...
...judges, challenging everything from the way he was arrested to the language of the court documents he receives. He says there's no way he'll get a fair trial given the "lynch atmosphere" in the media. He wants his case dismissed. He's also asked judges to order former Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke to The Hague to testify about an alleged deal he says the diplomat made with him: immunity from prosecution in return for leaving public life. Holbrooke denies there was ever such a deal. And Tribunal prosecutors say in the remote chance there was, it's "legally...
...other hand, he could simply be playing the media, pretending to be undecided in order to generate a little more ink about him on a day that's meant to be all about his opponent. Sources close to the Arizona Senator say he's almost certainly already decided on a running mate, but that the circle of people who know the decision remains tiny - probably just his top campaign aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, and presumably his wife Cindy. "This is very tightly held," says an adviser who has been boxed out of Veep discussions. "McCain doesn't like...
...inspiring example for his fellow prisoners. He was the camp troublemaker, cursing out guards despite the constant threat of torture, defying rules barring communication to tell his comrades vulgar jokes. He refused several offers of freedom because the military code of conduct requires all prisoners to be freed in order of capture and he knew that an admiral's son accepting early release would be a propaganda victory for North Vietnam as well as a devastating blow to camp morale. The one time his captors brutalized McCain into a sham confession, he considered suicide. "He could not avoid the conclusion...
...critics say the issue isn't the McCain campaign's use of biography per se, but rather how and when they bring it up. By turning to his POW experience in order to deflect any question, be it about his character, wealth or memory, McCain appears to risk trivializing his own heroic personal story in much the same way that Rudy Giuliani's constant invoking of 9/11 became the butt of jokes during his presidential campaign...