Word: protectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, most astonishing of all, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 88, spiritual ruler of fundamentalist, revolutionary Iran, announces that the author must be killed for the sin of insulting Islam, the Prophet and the holy Koran, and for good measure exonerates any Muslim who manages to perpetrate this deed and promises him...
While Americans would welcome harsher gun-control measures, they are skeptical and ambivalent on the subject. Most do not want to ban gun possession entirely; 84% say people have a right to own guns, perhaps because 53% feel they are inadequately protected by police. As for semiautomatic weapons, 51% would...
Heads of state, including President Bush, royalty and representatives of 163 countries were present for the funeral, protected by 32,000 police.
Besieged by armies of hunters, many herds are literally on the run. Conservationists use the phrase "refugee elephants" to describe animals fleeing Mozambique to crowd into protected areas in Zimbabwe. The killing of older animals with the biggest tusks threatens to reduce herds to what Tanzanian game manager Constantius Mlay...
This prospect is not so dismal as it sounds. If protected well, the remaining quarter-million elephants would be a large enough population to thrive and multiply again. In fact, David Western, director of WCI, asserts that if allowed to grow old and die naturally, the elephants in these herds...