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...cars - dozens of lynx are killed every year in road accidents. Park officials are also building tunnels so that the lynx don't have to cross roads to get from one area of the park to another. There are also plans to release more rabbits into the wild, to replenish the animals' food supply. The best hope for the lynx is a captive breeding program, one of which may start soon in Doñana, where three female lynx await a suitable male. But these haven't proved successful in the past. "A national park is not a zoo," Delibes...
...addition of three new professors—Professor of Government and Afro-American Studies Michael C. Dawson, Assistant Professor of English and Afro-American Studies Glenda Carpio, and most recently Evelynn Hammonds—is a positive move. It is heartening to see that the University moved quickly to replenish the intellectual capital that was diminished when Appiah and West decamped to Princeton...
Mankind must realize that growth should not outpace the ability of a natural resource to replenish itself within its given time frame. The human species has grown arrogant. Nature does not run on our clock; it has its own. HARRIETT E. BOWIE Ruckersville...
...with $112 million in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. In Washington, the Treasury Department challenged the report's conclusions on the ineffectiveness of the effort to clamp down on terrorists' assets. But the U.N. document also detailed the relative ease with which terrorists can cross international boundaries and replenish their supplies of weapons. Al-Qaeda, said the report, "is by all accounts 'fit and well' and poised to strike again at its leisure...
...same small planet, we're coming to realize that we're drawing from a finite account. The amount of crops, animals and other biomatter we extract from the earth each year exceeds what the planet can replace by an estimated 20%, meaning it takes 14.4 months to replenish what we use in 12--deficit spending of the worst kind. Sustainable development works to reverse that, to expand the resource base and adjust how we use it so we're living off biological interest without ever touching principal. "The old environmental movement had a reputation of elitism," says Mark Malloch Brown...