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...empty, four Udege hunters laugh uproariously. They argue that too many people are already using the forest. A study shows that only half the watershed's nearly 5,000 sq. mi. of forest produces enough sable, deer and elk to support hunters. And a single tribal hunter must roam a territory as large as 75 sq. mi.--about the size of the Caribbean island of Aruba--to trap enough fur and hunt enough meat to live on. That allowance is calculated to provide wildlife the space and opportunity to reproduce and maintain stable populations. The Bikin Valley has 47 hunters...
...suggest that Saddam's army is a threat mainly to other Iraqis. Amatzia Baram, chairman of the department of Middle Eastern history at Haifa University, calculates that up to 30% of Saddam's fighting troops, unable to subsist on meager army rations, have deserted, and many now roam the country as armed bandits. The rest are hardly in top shape. According to diplomatic and academic sources in Britain, when Saddam massed troops near the Kuwaiti border last summer, the maneuvers flopped. Trucks broke down, and when the Iraqis retreated, valuable equipment was left in the desert for weeks. The army...
...cheapest way to explore the ocean floor, however, may be with the free-floating AUVS, which can roam the depths without human intervention for months on end. Although they cannot yet provide real-time pictures, they can stay on the bottom as long as a year, patiently accumulating data. Two American AUVS--a government- and university-funded craft called Odyssey and Woods Hole's Autonomous Benthic Explorer--have just completed tests off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Eventually, fleets of these robots could communicate among themselves to provide information in the most efficient way, periodically surfacing to beam their...
...Internet's first true "killer app"-a reason to log on that could also make somebody rich, very rich. The Internet reaches tens of millions of people around the world, and it's growing faster than a Las Vegas bar tab. Many of the folks who roam the networks may like to place a wager from time to time, especially from the comfort of home or an office computer. The smell of all those suckers with money to burn has attracted dozens of would-be Bugsy Siegels, all of them racing to set up Internet sites. Analysts say legalized online...
Large corporations roam Washington these days like grazing beasts--not good, not evil, just hungry. They form green-sounding lobbying groups and contribute millions to lawmakers. Something called the "National Wetlands Coalition" raised $7.8 million from British Petroleum, Georgia Pacific, Kerr-McGee and Occidental. The "Clean Water Industry Coalition" raised $15.8 million from Caterpillar, Dow, Du Pont and Union Carbide. Al Meyerhoff, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says, "Industry lobbyists are writing laws and legislative history. They're doing everything but voting, but maybe that's next...