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...based Linking Individuals for Nature Conservation (LINC), says the sound of airgun explosions is 265 decibels at the source, and 110 decibels almost five miles away. The approximate hearing threshold for humans and marine mammals is 180 decibels, so "at [five miles] they're still being harmed," Ford says. (Read TIME's review of eco-documentary The Cove...
...murder involving Knox. Responding to charges of shoddy work, Stefanoni tartly told an Italian newspaper recently, "Given the fact that DNA doesn't know how to fly [that is, get from one place to another on its own], it is impossible that the samples would have been altered." (Read "How Strong Is the Evidence Against Amanda Knox...
...epidemic that plagues Italian women of in-home rapes and murders by their partners. At a conference in 2009, Napoleoni opined that in her experience, it was easier to save prostitutes than married women from cycles of violent attacks because police can arrest prostitutes before it's too late. (Read about how the Meredith Kercher murder trial is gripping Italy...
...Read about efforts to grow the Iran-sanctions coalition...
...Attempts to economically isolate troublemaking nations are the leech treatments of international diplomacy: traditional cure-alls that, though well-intentioned, rarely force regime change or prompt significant policy shifts, particularly when done unilaterally - and often a greater hardship for the citizens living under these regimes than for the leaders. (Read TIME's interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...