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...before did. Yeah, failure teaches you things." Luce says, "Maybe I'm calmer. Friends say I seem more mature. Maybe just tired." She and some partners heard the beat of great wings when they were cuffed by the edge of a large avalanche at the Khumbu Icefall. Being in peril, she says, "sharpens your senses for life...
...Bostonians need not despair. As the city and the state argue over just how the rat peril should be met, the state has hired William B. Jackson, the ultimate rat terminator, to deal with the problem. A former biology professor, Jackson, 62, now runs his own consulting business in Osseo, Mich., and is one of the nation's foremost experts on rodent control. Working for the United Nations, he has battled rats around the world, from Indonesia to Brazil. Billed by the Boston media as the "rat czar" and the "Pied Piper," Jackson is devising a strategy to save Boston...
Striding majestically across the savanna, the African elephant is an unmistakable symbol of power and strength. As recently as the 1970s, its numbers were so great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is one of its glories: the huge creature's magnificent tusks of ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa...
...orgy of poaching driven by record prices for ivory threatens the animals with extinction. -- An oil spill poses the first major peril to the pristine Antarctic...
...Catholics' reluctance to follow Church teaching is seen in their reaction, or lack thereof, to the January decision by the Reagan Administration to restrict the number of Southeast Asian refugees allowed into the country. It's no coincidence that this policy shift comes amidst nationalist cries over the "Yellow Peril" in education, real estate ownership and economic competitiveness. If American Catholics were to recognize that every-one deserves an equal chance at the freedoms and opportunities that the United States can provide, pressure against such a policy would be enormous...