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...species -- black, white, Sumatran, Indian and Javan -- all of them endangered because of poachers who kill them for their horns. Africa's black, or hooked-lipped, rhino (Diceros bicornis) is the latest to land on the endangered list. In 1970 there were 65,000 of the beasts roaming the rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe. The Zambezi Valley, with more than 500 animals, now holds the world's last viable breeding herd. To defend them, the country has launched a controversial shoot-on-sight...
...performance of Asian Americans also triggers resentment and tension. "Anti-Asian activity in the form of violence, vandalism, harassment and intimidation continues to occur across the nation," the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared last year. The situation can be particularly rough in inner-city schools. Young immigrant Asians complain that they are called "Chink" or "Chop Suey" and are constantly threatened. At New York City's Washington Irving High School, for example, there were reports last year of some 40 incidents of harassment and violence against Asian-American students...
...long to signal his intentions: beyond the end of September, a late-from- the-gate candidacy could be almost impossible. Now Nunn must decide whether he wants to remain as the perfect non-candidate or become another presidential contender who will inevitably lose some of his luster in the rough-and-tumble of a difficult campaign...
...company, based in Cupertino, Calif., posted second-quarter revenues of $637 million, an increase of 42% over the same period a year earlier. Only a year ago numbers like that would have seemed unimaginable. In fact, doubts were rising about whether upstarts like Apple could survive in the rough-and- tumble business. But now that sales are on an upswing again, there seems to be room for several major competitors. Says Stewart Alsop, editor and publisher of the California-based P.C. Letter: "I don't think the personal- computer industry is mature. It's a very young business." Indeed...
Various efforts around the country are targeted on IV drug abusers, though most of them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure...