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...Parks & Wildlife Commission, Steve Eldridge has a small but growing collection of dna samples waiting to be sent to Wilton. They're to be the start of genetic sampling of dingoes in the Territory where they are protected, though government staff bait pastoral properties at the request of landholders. It's a common story: Eldridge says there aren't the funds or the staff to monitor changes in dingo populations other than as part of baiting programs on properties which are losing stock. "There are a number of buckets of money for pest-animal research but there are so many...
...Right now Mercury ... is in a corner perfectly aligned with my star. Mercury is no good, so if it's not good, I am going to request not to speak." THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, Thai Prime Minister, explaining that he will refuse to take questions from reporters until next year for astrological reasons...
...hand him any papers. A U.S. soldier sat at the table with the lawyers during the duration of their visit. The two men had just two hours to prepare their client to answer questions he might be asked by the judge. "For reasons of security," TIME's request to visit the facility to confirm the account of the lawyers was refused by Task Force 134, which runs the prison, and by the U.S.-led Regime Crimes Liaison Office, which coordinates visits by defense lawyers...
Louisiana's recent request for $250 billion, perilously short on details, got a contemptuous reception from Republicans ("Nonstarter," said a Senate aide), editorial writers (who dubbed it the "Louisiana looters' bill") and even a few Democrats ("They're thieves," said a House aide involved with budgeting for Louisiana relief). Michael Olivier, Louisiana's secretary of economic development, points out that Katrina devastated a far larger area--23,000 acres--than 9/11 did and destroyed nearly 284,000 homes. With 71,000 businesses shut down by Katrina and a further 10,000 by Rita, and with local governments short...
Massachusetts has denied Harvard’s request to route trucks involved in the construction of its Cowperthwaite Street graduate dormitory along Memorial Drive, Cambridge’s city manager wrote in a letter released at yesterday’s City Council meeting. The decision means that trucks exiting the construction site will continue to travel up the mostly residential Banks Street in order to leave the area on Mount Auburn Street. Trucks headed for the Cowperthwaite site—across the street from Mather House—will still use DeWolfe Street, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy...