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...depressing tale of pollution, encroachment and poaching. But in the country's largest metropolis, nature is biting back. A 55-year-old beggar and a teenager were dragged off last week while they slept and were killed by leopards in Bombay's 283-hectare Sanjay Gandhi National Park, capping a deadly June in which 11 people were eaten by the predators...
...space. Thousands of migrants join Bombay's population of 14 million every week, but built on a narrow spit of land between marshlands and the sea, the city has nowhere to grow. As many as 12,000 of Bombay's poor now live in slums inside the wildlife park in the north of the city, and the normally shy leopards, for whom food is often scarce, are developing a taste for people...
...effort to sate the leopards' appetites, local officials are releasing boxes of rabbits and pigs into the park. Deer from the city's zoo may be next. Authorities are also trapping leopards and releasing them in other parks and forests, but a more obvious solution might be a fence. The park still doesn't have one, although $2 million was set aside for a 110-km wall in 2001. Says park ranger Vijay Gadkar: "When we don't even have basic amenities like streetlights or electricity for our own houses, fencing looks like a luxury." Right up until you meet...
...being investigated for telling an Iranian spy about our having broken an Iranian secret code, a serious charge. Who revealed classified information to Chalabi, and will those people be fired? Or will Bush, as usual, not hold them accountable for their mistakes? JOHN WISDOM DANCER Canoga Park, Calif...
...mode, my wife and I sent Gabby a U.S. map with the route home marked in yellow and a list of rules: If you break down, call AAA on your cell phone and do not unlock your door for anyone but a policeman or the tow truck. Park as close as you can to the motel entrance and under the brightest lights. Don't speed. Don't drive when you're exhausted. Call us every 100 miles or every two hours, whichever comes first...