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...COLONY JOHN TAYMAN For more than 100 years, well into the 20th century, Hawaii had a policy of involuntarily and permanently exiling anybody who had leprosy to a tiny peninsula on the island of Molokai, walled off from civilization by the world's tallest sea cliff. The Colony is the story of the tiny, tortured community the lepers created, fighting prejudice, starvation, the elements, one another and their disease--which, we now know, was never particularly contagious...
Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last August, on one of their regular expeditions, Glenda dropped a lens cap into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry...
...thing most wildlife-management experts are sure of is that relocation programs do not work. The Queensland government has quietly stopped the practice. In an experiment, a satellite tracking device was attached to a crocodile, which was relocated from one side of Cape York Peninsula to the other. Within a few months the animal was back home, having swum about 450 km around the tip of the Cape. Read says captured crocodiles are now sold to reptile farmers or nature parks...
...military commander in Israeli history. It's what enabled him, from a variety of Cabinet posts, to construct settlements in the face of international opprobrium. But it's also what allowed him not only to evacuate Gaza but, 23 years earlier, to tear down settlements in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and use water cannons to force out the Israelis there, putting Israel in compliance with Israel's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt...
...Palestine. Six years later he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that erupted after Israel declared its independence. As he rose through the ranks, he played a significant role in every one of Israel's wars. In 1967 he commanded one of three divisions that wrested the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. In 1973 he led a counterattack in Sinai that broke through Egyptian lines and ended up just 60 miles outside Cairo...