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...Still optimistic in the face of the overwhelming odds stacked against the orangutans, Smits boasts that he has traveled to Washington with "a letter of authorization from the Indonesian government in my hand to set up a debt-for-nature swap," whereby a portion of Indonesia's foreign debt would be paid off in return for the creation of a huge protected area in central Borneo of some 700,000 hectares. Considering the utter chaos in Jakarta, it is, at the very least, a highly optimistic plan...
Select Equity is widely considered to be one of HMC’s best team of investors in the 185-member firm, which handles all of the University’s endowment. Over the last decade, the portion of the portfolio overseen by Select Equity has outpaced the returns of the S&P 500 index by an average of 4 percent a year...
...dark suit from New York get out," jokes one of Lear's writers, "we know we're in censorship trouble." Network censors are rarely as melodramatic as that. Usually they are a task force of some two dozen men and women, each of whom oversees a portion of a network's total programming (including commercials); they review scripts and sit in on tapings and screenings, questioning anything that seems to conflict with federal broadcasting law or their network's standards of taste...
...what really worries Hispanic leaders is that many newcomers don't seem to want to participate. For whatever reason--longer waits, higher application fees, cultural factors that work against assimilation--a smaller and smaller portion of new immigrants are even trying to become citizens. Some Latino politicians blame bilingualism, the cause for which they fought in the 1970s and 1980s, for discouraging assimilation. "A Latino can exist in their own community and never have to learn English to survive," says Texas Congressman Charles Gonzalez. "My fear is that we have not only isolated ourselves, but we have handicapped ourselves...
Many chronic problems are shared by the twin cities. They slurp from a common, underground desert aquifer, but Juarez's exploding population may run out of fresh water in as little as five years because it sits on a smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will...