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...within the next 10 to 20 years. And an additional 30% are coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near Panama City, Panama. "I'm not anymore. Today when I go for a swim on a reef in Panama...
...long been a TV passion. Nothing gets a network newsman's juices flowing like a good hurricane, with its made-to-order suspense ("the eye of the storm is expected to hit land at 9 p.m....") and the opportunity for daredevil theatrics (Dan Rather clinging to a pole in Panama City, Florida, as Hurricane Opal hits). Local weathercasters in the nervous Northeast treat every approaching snowstorm as if it were the coming Armageddon...
...recently discovered visitor from the edge of the solar system was already being spotted without telescopes or binoculars by stargazers from the Azores to Australia, and many of them rushed to the Internet to report their observations. "This thing is starting to look amazing," wrote Marcus Featherston of Panama City, Florida, in a Usenet newsgroup called sci.astro.amateur. "I could see it through my car window!" And that was while Hyakutake was still brightening. When it reaches maximum intensity this week, the comet should be nearly as bright as Vega, one of the most luminous stars in the heavens. Astronomy clubs...
DOUGLAS WALLER got interested in reporting on covert operations seven years ago when he covered the U.S. invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War. He quickly learned that ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent...
Anyone who has barely even paid attention to the media coverage of the downing of the exiles' planes now is probably well versed in the finer points of international law. This detailed analysis seems particularly odd, for when the United States invaded Panama in 1989 (with over 23,000 troops), flagrantly violating the U.N. and the Organization of American States charters and numerous treaties, the press failed to subject our nation's actions to similar scrutiny...