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Most of us are not unaware of the plight of the homeless. We ignore them for the most part, our disregard occasionally punctured by stabs of guilt. They fade easily into the landscape, impotent and faceless...
...abundantly clear that some action needs to be taken. We need to do more than become sensitized to the plight of the homeless sensitized to the plight of the homeless. While awareness of the problem is the first step towards solving it, clearly much more is needed...
Preventing such a tragedy is supposed to be the main goal of the governing body of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which is meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed...
...forces driving the black market are so strong that nothing -- not public opinion, not political pressure, not the power of police -- has halted the tiger's slide toward extinction. Can international trade sanctions against Asian nations succeed where all else has failed? There is no guarantee. The tiger's plight reveals the limits of conservation efforts and raises disturbing questions about humanity's ability to share the planet with other animals. Says Elinor Constable, an Assistant Secretary of State who leads U.S. diplomatic efforts to help the tiger: "If the concerted efforts of the world cannot save the tiger, what...
Journalists rightly pride themselves on their objectivity, but in special cases personal involvement can be deeply gratifying. Just ask TIME correspondent Ann Blackman. As a member of our Moscow bureau in 1987, Blackman was struck by the plight of a family of Jewish refuseniks she met. Her daughter Leila and Vera Zieman became friends. Yuri and Tanya Zieman, who had % been trying vainly to emigrate to the U.S., led a lonely life of outcasts. "We spent countless hours at their kitchen table," Blackman says, "sipping tea and learning firsthand how difficult Soviet life was for average people...