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They look sturdy, even hostile, but cactus plants in the southwestern United States and Mexico are under attack. According to wildlife conservationists, cactuses are being dug up and smuggled away at an alarming rate by over-zealous collectors looking for rare species and "narco-tourists" mining the desert for the small, psychotropic peyote plant...
Still, catching BMW won't be easy. The Bavarian stalwart sold 1.5 million cars last year, nearly 336,000 of them in the States, and it is building cars at a plant in Spartanburg, S.C. That gives BMW a healthy cost advantage with the euro so strong--which is why Audi hasn't ruled out opening its own U.S. plant...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained about 600 workers at a factory in Laurel on suspicion that they were illegal immigrants. It was ICE's largest raid at a single workplace; in May, agents descended on a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, arresting some 400 people. ICE arrested nearly 5,000 workers...
...Zeppelin lyrics sanitized during Olympics closing ceremony. Robert Plant replaced by THIS GIRL...
...side of sustainability education seems to be lagging behind the hardware side. One obvious reason is that the construction of a green building is fairly straightforward, but the architecture of an educational program isn't something that can be changed overnight. "If you design a part of the physical plant wrong, it's obvious quickly," says Terry Calhoun of the Society for College and University Planning. "It's not so obvious with the curriculum...