Word: parkes
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...very sites designated for wildlife's preservation are becoming its abattoir, almost as if someone had let a serial killer into Noah's ark. Poachers haunt nearly half of America's 366 park areas, supplying animal parts to illegal traffickers who operate in at least 17 states. They supply bear paws as culinary delicacies and bear gallbladders as medicinal ingredients. Rare butterflies are netted for collectors around the world. Deer are decapitated to decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes...
...criticism" about the removal of documents from Foster's office, Mrs. Clinton conceded, but "I cannot speak to that in any detail" because " . . . I was not here, I was in Arkansas." And anyway, she added, "I believe ((the search)) was done in the presence of officials from the park police," which had jurisdiction over the case. That sounded fine: Mrs. Clinton was away, and the cops controlled the scene. But, as the park police confirmed to the Senate Banking Committee last week, they were only near the zone; they were not in it. They had been forced to "sit outside...
White, who is from a small town in North Carolina, spent weeks in Lake Providence observing everyday life and listening to the town's residents. "They have the fewest institutions of any Black Belt town I've ever been to," he says. "They have no social club, no public park or swimming pool, no nothing...
...shots. The ex-monarch, who was deposed in 1961 when Rwanda became independent, has just relayed a message to the Kigali government, promising to let the people decide whether he should rule if he's granted entry. For now, King Kigeli, 58, lives in the Washington suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland. A recent report said the impoverished king had applied for food stamps there...
...other side of Capitol Hill, FBI and U.S. park-police investigators affirmed before the Senate Banking Committee that the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was a suicide unrelated to Whitewater...