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...suppose, Washington is not alone; neither China nor India has signed the treaty, and Russia has not ratified it. But under the treaty's terms, American soldiers could be subject to the court's jurisdiction for actions committed in nations that have signed and ratified the document. Washington wants protection for its peacekeepers. Until it gets its way, the Administration is holding up renewal of the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Bosnia. Europeans say the U.S. could protect its interests by signing the treaty while negotiating exemptions. Washington says that a signature would be the first step on a slippery slope...
...refugee from the Jurassic period. A higher spring flow would signal the sturgeon to spawn and would provide food; the piping plover would find hospitable nesting ground on sandbars carved out by the rushing current. A summer drawdown would create shallows for the young sturgeons to survive and protect plover nestlings from being washed away...
Urgencies vary with the times. In Lewis and Clark country, if there is any visionary thought of Jeffersonian scope going on, it is directed toward reconciling development with environmental protection. Ward Parkinson, the co-founder of Micron Technology, Idaho's largest private employer, thinks long term about educated work forces and quality of life and says that when the state's politicians "decide to protect the salmon on the Snake River, that's when we will know they are serious about developing industry." There may be a convergence of environment and industry coming, but it is still somewhere downstream. --With...
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...gardens. Nothing it seemed, not even World War II, could touch McCluskieganj. And then, in 1947, came Indian independence. The community "just couldn't imagine a life without England," says McCluskieganj historian Captain David Cameron, 72. Some of the early pioneers had died and, without the colonial shield to protect them, their children emigrated to England or Australia. Those that stayed discovered that after shutting out the cruelties of the world, they'd cut themselves off from its riches too. The place had no industry and was simply too small and isolated to sustain itself. Mold ate at the bungalows...