Word: review
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...legality to their ventures, but loopholes and lack of enforcement make it easy to bend the law in ingenious and profitable ways. In the district of Khabarovsk, the government tried to impose environmental controls on logging but allowed officials to exempt concessions smaller than 5,000 acres from strict review. Alexander Kulikov, chairman of the Khabarovsk Wildlife Foundation, says that just before they leave office, local officials hand out dozens of concessions, often to friends and relatives. He says that in the Khor River watershed, a region of about 12,000 sq. mi., more than 90 forest enterprises are operating...
...technology to extract those reserves, we felt it better to create the Lena Delta Biosphere Reserve and protect the area. Perhaps in 50 or 100 years there will be a new technology for extraction, and then, if we still need oil and gas, future generations can decide whether to review the reserve's status." This is a perspective that Yakutia's arctic neighbors in Alaska might consider, as oil and gas interests clamor to open the great Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling...
...Siberia, notes that even now an American-Russian joint venture is preparing to mine gold in an area near two salmon rivers that was once intended to be part of a reserve. He fears that the way in which the project is being rammed through--without proper environmental review--sets a troubling precedent. Kamchatka has more than 300 other potential mine sites, many of them near existing or proposed nature reserves...
There is nothing, however, to stop a surgeon from shopping around for the most accommodating review board. A case in point is that of Dr. Akio Wakabayashi and the laser surgery he developed. He was at the University of California at Irvine in 1989 when he experimented with a new treatment for clearing the airways of emphysema victims. Seven of his first 56 patients developed fatal complications. Some of his colleagues suspect that the Irvine review board found the numbers worrisome; Wakabayashi claims the university "couldn't buy the equipment I needed." Whatever the reason, he transferred to Chapman General...
Soon after Wakabayashi joined Chapman, he started having run-ins with its review board. "His lack of getting published always was a concern," recalls Howard Levine, the hospital's chief executive officer. "We kept saying, 'You need to get your data peer-reviewed.' And every month we would have a discussion about this. He promised it would appear in the journals, but for as long as he was here, it never...