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...addressed, threatens to stall economic growth and spark renewed waves of confidence crises in global financial markets. "Attention has shifted to the second part of the story, to the impact [of the financial crisis] on government balance sheets," says David Beers, global head of sovereign ratings at Standard & Poor's in London. That has "intensified the pressure that was already there to start a process of repair...
...China, where tiger-hunting was legal until 1977, is not the only country with a poor record of conservation. Tigers are also found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam - but only just. A century ago, there were an estimated 100,000 tigers in the wild in Asia. Now their numbers are at an "all time low" of 3,200, estimates the WWF, which in January warned the animals could be extinct in the wild by 2022 - the next Year of the Tiger - unless new efforts are made to save them...
...tigers on meat hooks is the day I'm gonna die" - and says many of his SFA colleagues privately oppose it too. He believes that official and popular attitudes in China toward conservation are changing so fast that the country's past record is a poor guide for future actions. "That was then," he insists. "This is now." What China does next could decide whether this is a Year of the Tiger worth celebrating...
...China is a poor country with nothing comparable to the tremendous research, industrial and economic resources that the U.S. has been blessed with. Yet they're blowing us away ... The low-carbon era is coming. We can be dragged into that newer, greener world by leading countries like China; or we can take up the challenge and become the world's leader ourselves." --2/13/10...
...episode that later became the subject of the book and film Black Hawk Down) and then the rise of a movement - the Taliban in Afghanistan, al-Shabab in Somalia - that proposed an extremist vision of Islam as a solution to the lawlessness. The two countries are both poor and populated mostly, it can often seem, by men with a uniform taste for beards, AK-47s and pickup trucks. (See what the U.S. Army can learn from Black Hawk Down...