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Most experts believe that only 50,000 to 70,000 chirus remain, down from well over a million earlier this century. In 1975 a U.N. convention forbade all trade in the species. But that hasn't stopped the killing of thousands in recent years. Poachers armed with semiautomatics hunt the animal year-round, and not just when the chirus' coats are thickest. Despite the threat of seven years in jail or a $130 fine, poachers continue to pursue their prey...
...better hope so. Motorola's recent chip-shipping problems could cut Apple's third-quarter earnings 60% (from $203 million in profits to some $80 million), and have already triggered a plunge in Apple stock from 80 to the low 60s. But Jobs' keep-it-simple strategy--G3s and now G4s for pro users, iMacs and iBooks for the masses--has been so successful that some analysts see nothing but a buying opportunity. "This is not the old, incompetent, bungling Apple," says Warburg, Dillon Read's Wolf. "This is the new Apple. They have a great strategy, and they...
...recent years scores of scientists have grappled with that profound question, among them mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, biologist Francis Crick and psychiatrist Allan Hobson, as well as many philosophers. Their answers have ranged from the optimism of Tufts University's Daniel Dennett, who says consciousness will one day be understood as nothing more complicated than a kind of biological software routine, to the outright pessimism of Rutgers University's Colin McGinn. He regards consciousness as "the ultimate mystery, a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel...
...against hiv anywhere from 10% to 43% of the time (as opposed to the 1% failure rate claimed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when condoms are used properly). Students view graphic slides of a uterus before and after the onset of pelvic inflammatory disease. At a recent abstinence class for seventh- and eighth-graders at nearby West Middle School, lecturer Rene Rochester gave a pep talk urging students to stem their sexual urges by "controlling...adrenaline" flow...
DIED. ALEX LOWE, 40, perhaps the greatest American mountaineer in recent years; in a massive avalanche on Tibet's Shisha Pangma, the world's 14th highest peak. Lowe climbed the nose of El Capitan in 10 hrs. and made the first solo ascent of the north face of Wyoming's Grand Teton. He conquered Everest twice. Despite the superlatives regularly heaped on him by colleagues, he said, "I'm just the world's most dogmatic climber...