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...hundred and forty photographs equal one editorial. It argues eloquently for the preservation of Canada's vast but endangered forests, locales where fish school in crystalline water and polar bears wander over surfaces as yet unmarked by the snowmobile...
...smashing of Saccoccia's empire is actually the third major drug-money % laundering indictment in the precious-metals and diamond industry in as many years. The first phase of what the Federal Government calls Operation Polar Cap involved the 1988 breakup of a $1 billion money-laundering scheme for the Medellin cartel through a Los Angeles jewelry mart. "Saccoccia was in a position to step right in after we knocked out Polar Cap One," says U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond of Rhode Island. "We were onto him from...
There was more grim news last week about the ozone layer, which wards off the sun's deadliest radiation. A U.N. advisory panel reported that serious atmospheric ozone depletion has spread from the polar regions to temperate climes -- and is worse than anyone thought. In the past decade the amount of ozone over the continental U.S. has decreased between 4% and 8%. Scientists knew that man-made chlorofluorocarbons caused some ozone loss in the temperate zones during winter and early spring, but now there also seem to be "significant" decreases in summer when people expose the most skin...
With the development of the U.S.-led, uni-polar world, the rules of the game have changed. The remaining Soviet republics are still reeling from the autonomy they announced in August. Eastern European countries have experienced the pleasures and pains of the transition to democracy and market-based economy for the past two years...
NATURE Stalking polar bears in the treacherous Arctic...