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...porous the ban, the more the opportunities for illegal trading. Already South Africa and Botswana are on the smugglers' routes. An ambiguous result in Lausanne could embolden the trade and undermine enforcement efforts in Africa. Time is not on the elephant's side. If the slaughter continues at the rate of the past decade, 1,000 elephants will be killed during the week of the debate...
Contrary to Cohn's beliefs, the growing trends of American Judaism are tragically that the intermarriage rate is rising, and the community is shrinking as more Jews forsake any connection to Judaism whatsoever...
...easy in Cambridge. Who will fill in for the Home Town barbers? Suave stylists or cut-rate cutters? Chatty barbers or antiseptic hair-removal experts...
Society did not, however, randomly selectpeople to target as witches; most of the accusedshared several distinguishing characteristics.Most of the accused confessed to being witches,"...or, ...at any rate, pretended to [have]extraordinary powers..."1, used to scare theirenemies and harm livestock. This characteristic isquestionable in that many of the witches whoconfessed did so under torturous conditions. Inthe late 1500's and early 1600's in Europe, theaccused were tried, tortured until they confessedand immediately put to death for practicing blackmagic.2 In Salem, the accused were not tortured;thus initial and convincing confessions ofactually practicing witchcraft were rare...
...assessor said he was optimistic about the city's ability to gather the necessary revenue. "The growth rate in Cambridge is very favorable, it has consistently gone up. There are many unfinished properties out there, and that means money coming...