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...plan any more appealing to critics. Japan's internal controls for distinguishing legal ivory from contraband are seriously flawed, says the Fish and Wildlife Service's Jones. "Their registration system is being flagrantly not followed." That wouldn't matter as much if international inspectors could somehow determine the origin of a piece of ivory. But while scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service have been experimenting with ways to do that, they've proved unsuccessful...
...referendum in which California residents barred the state from "grant[ing] preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethinicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting," with the exception of jobs that have "bona fide" sex-based qualifications...
...practitioner of alternative medicine, I am concerned about the self-use of natural remedies, particularly products that are botanical in origin. Despite the fact that they are "natural," they are by no means without hazard and should not be taken before consulting with a qualified and knowledgeable practitioner. Certainly, the obvious steps should be taken to achieve better health, but not without proceeding carefully. NISSI S. WANG Daly City, Calif...
...Simon and his mother, along with 28 other people ages 7 and older, will begin 13 days of excavating one of the largest intact Chinese ground-sluicing operations in the Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation...
...acknowledged that the story's contention that crack smoking in the inner city can be traced to a single Nicaraguan drug ring (Blandon was called "the Johnny Appleseed of crack") was an "oversimplification" and ignored evidence that the crack epidemic was a "complex phenomenon that had more than one origin." Finally, Ceppos admitted, the Mercury News "did not have proof" that top CIA officials knew the contras were getting money from the L.A. drug connection. "If we were to publish 'Dark Alliance' today," he said, "it would be edited differently. It would state fewer conclusions as certainties and be clearer...