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...tailed bandicoot is noteworthy because it encapsulates the contradictions conservationists face when they rail against the extinction of plants and animals. I drew the bandicoot example from the new book titled The Future of Life by Pellegrino University Research Professor E. O. Wilson, who spoke at ARCO Forum last week about the crisis facing thousands of species of plants and animals that have been driven to the brink of extinction in part by human activity. He makes a very convincing argument that humans can save untold thousands—perhaps even millions—of species by protecting their habitats...
...impasse was costing businesses an estimated $2 billion a day, and threatened an already slumping U.S. economy that depends more than ever on a just-in-time supply chain. The West Coast docks support an estimated 4 million jobs across the U.S. In Fremont, Calif., an auto assembly plant owned jointly by GM and Toyota had to stop production for lack of engines and transmissions, idling 5,100 workers. Such retailers as the Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, which expect to do 40% of their annual business during the holiday season, would suffer a blow to their profits from...
...controversy over this aid centers around the regulations for genetically modified crops around the world. The United States permits GM food to be sold widely, and most American corn farmers plant genetically altered strains designed to make the corn stalks more resistant to disease and insect pests. Countries in the European Union and Africa, however, are wary of GM foods—believing that insufficient testing has been done on the altered strains to prove them safe for consumption...
...Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...
FACTORIES AND HOMES Legitimate civilian projects such as a fertilizer plant can quickly and easily be diverted to produce material for chemical and biological weapons. Defectors say these are buried in residential basements...