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...ELECTED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; after a closely contested runoff against party Secretary-General Naoto Kan; in Tokyo. Despite holding a quarter of the seats in Japan's Diet, a recent newspaper poll showed that that djp is supported by less than 10% of the public...
Pilot-Whale strandings are nothing new for Cape Cod [Science, Aug. 12]. Henry David Thoreau, writing in the mid-19th century in his book Cape Cod, described beached whales. That was long before people started theorizing that agricultural runoff and global warming might be tainting the food chain and causing marine-mammal deaths. LEN SURETTE Santa Ynez, Calif...
...summer the garden helps keep the building cool by shielding it under a layer of moist material. In winter it insulates against cold. In both seasons, it reduces the storm-water runoff that occasionally overflows the Chicago sewers leading to Lake Michigan. Though the garden has yellowed a bit this summer, it still provides its cost-cutting benefits. Not incidentally, it also provides a habitat for birds, butterflies and grasshoppers. But not yet for people--the garden is closed to the public. Sometimes nature needs to work in peace...
...million people poorer. A former parliamentary Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough to have made it into this week's presidential runoff vote in the new parliament, facing front runner Gonzalo Sanchez, a former President. More than that, Evo-speak--"The drug war is just a U.S. excuse to control our countries"--resonates beyond Bolivia's borders. Next door in Peru, irate coca farmers have successfully pressured the government to suspend eradication. In Colombia...
...ultra-conservative leader of the French National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, many of have attempted to find some explanation for his surprising electoral showing, an unprecedented “victory” that allowed him to participate in this weekend’s two-man runoff election with incumbent President Jacques Chirac. In the process, it is easy to write off this development as the result of impotent mainstream politicians, the fragmentation of the Left’s vote, or the political apathy of the “silent” majority, while conveniently sidestepping the true root...