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Although few restoration projects are more than a decade old, many have already begun to generate encouraging results. In Costa Rica, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five years ago had been overrun by cattle and torched annually by ranchers and hunters. In California, at the Nature Conservancy's Coachella Valley Preserve, a few dozen volunteers felled thousands of salt cedar trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance...
...Politically, his aim is to demonstrate, by repeatedly tweaking the U.S., that he not only has survived but also remains a force to be reckoned with. Ultimately, he hopes, the world will weary of endless inconclusive showdowns and shift its attention elsewhere; he will be left in peace to rebuild his military machine until he attains the regional dominance that he was attempting to achieve when the gulf war began...
...head the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, created last year with a mandate to help rebuild what was communist Europe by promoting the private sector. But there is already plenty of private Western capital chasing limited investment opportunities. What can you bring to the party...
...banker, do you think there is enough capital around to rebuild Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, finance U.S. deficits and help the South...
...next stage should be one of beginnings. Old alliances and concepts of security, conceived in the cold war, cry out for redefinition to cope with new or resurgent threats, like nationalism. For their own good, the industrialized democracies have to mount an all-out campaign to help rebuild the shattered Soviet bloc into a sturdy component of a peaceful, prosperous, free-trading international order. For its part, the U.S. must formulate a post-cold war agenda that will keep it fully engaged abroad even as it attends to its problems at home...