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Setting aside conspiracy theorists, many on this side of the pond see our current situation as an almost inevitable by-product of a world increasingly polarized into “haves” (the West) and “have-nots” (the Third World). Globalization has both exacerbated this polarization, and educated these latter day sans culottes of the Third World into an increasingly hostile posture towards the West. For many, that means principally the United States. In extremis, that hostility can be transmogrified into proactive terrorism...
...Yale is always a strong tournament—this year was especially strong,” Klein said. “We’re very much a medium-sized fish in a pretty tough pond...
...well into the dog days of summer, and the din has become almost unbearable: We hear it while we're lounging in the hammock, fishing by the pond, barbecuing in the back yard, and sometimes when we're just trying to sleep. It's mosquito time again, but this year, instead of just slapping away the annoying bugs, we're attacking them with a vengeance born out of fear. That's not just a buzzing noise you hear, after all - it's the sound of the West Nile virus, and theculex pipiens mosquito that carries the ignoble honor most likely...
...fish. In Southeast Asia, where they originate, they live in irrigation ditches and rice paddies, thriving there until the dry season, when their pools shrink and they squirm along to the next pocket of water. Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever. "Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary," says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach...
...zero-tolerance approach the federal and state governments seem to be taking does not bode well for the snakehead. Maryland officials continue to puzzle out how best to clear the Crofton pond (poison, electrocution and concussion bombs are current options), and Washington is preparing to impose prison terms of up to six months and fines of up to $10,000 for any future snakehead importers. "Predators of this kind have historically been among our most damaging species," says Simberloff. In most cases, unfortunately, that damage may be impossible to undo...