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...sleeping comrades and sprayed it with his K-1 semiautomatic, killing eight. It's still unclear what caused the incident-his court-martial started last week-but civic groups have complained for years about grim conditions and high suicide rates in the armed forces. Says human-rights activist Park Won Suk: "Military life and the treatment of soldiers are still stuck in the 19th century...
...music festival in the U.K., for example, well-heeled attendees paid more than $10,000 each to stay in luxury tented accommodation - a far cry from the event's countercultural origins. And it seems that no large gathering - from Japan's Summer Sonic to Scotland's T in the Park - is without its gaudy glut of sponsors' logos. But for those who rail against the commodification of culture, there's always Burning Man (burningman.com). Now in its 19th year, this arts festival in the Nevada desert remains inexplicably free of meddling Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings...
Such a tentative clawhold on survival explains why environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are appalled that as early as this month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is almost certain to call for taking the Yellowstone National Park population of grizzlies off the "threatened" species list (threatened means that a species is likely to become endangered; endangered means it's likely to become extinct). But one environmental organization actively supports the move. Says Tom France, a senior attorney with the National Wildlife Federation: "The underlying facts surrounding the health...
...original bear-recovery plan put together by the FWS called for a minimum of 15 cub-bearing females every year. Yellowstone easily exceeds that, averaging 40 for each of the past six years. What's more, those mothers are not in just one cub-friendly part of the park but are dispersed throughout it, another important benchmark. Overall, the population has been expanding some 7% annually for the past several years, while mortality has been 4% or lower since...
...White House aides say they worry about the precedent, should Bush see Sheehan again. "If the President meets with her, does he have to meet with every protester who camps out in Crawford or in Lafayette Park [in Washington]?" asks a Bush aide. "Does he have a second meeting with every mother or wife who asks...