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Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...
Aging Baby Boomers obsessed by fitness will sympathize with the plight of President Clinton, who must suffer the consequences of taking a pratfall and ripping up his knee. A little advice for the First Jogger: don't do it. As a so-called impact-loading exercise, jogging puts maximum pressure on the knee, especially once it has been weakened by a major tendon tear. TIME Daily's prescription for fitness: ride a bike. It wi ll provide the same aerobic value while putting no damaging stress on that weakened knee -- and the spandex clothes are cool...
...speaker criticized nations--including the U.S.--for assistance to Indonesia, and for "turning a blind eye" to the plight of the East Timorese...
...forgotten by the mass media," Dyson says. "It's not a big story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote reporter Lee Bey in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 25. "Then it would have been news. Some legislator would have pushed for tougher laws against...
...company has become a poster boy for a renewed antisweatshop movement. Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney says. But then again, neither is Guess...