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...year has passed since the Task Force issued its recommendations, and there's scant evidence of progress. The wildlife-crime bureau is still just a promising idea, and the government agencies in charge of conservation remain as ineffective as ever. Some wildlife experts argue that the Task Force may even be making the crisis worse. In its recommendations, it tries hard to balance concern for the animals with promoting the rights of poor farmers and tribal groups who share their land. "There are villages inside core tiger-reserve areas with no food, no education," says Narain. "While we need...
...senior drilling inspector at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, Rufus Moore usually pays scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says...
...sense of hopelessness has contributed to medical science's scant progress on MND, the researchers argue. "No one," says Kiernan, "wants to go into an area that's completely black." It's also likely that the relatively small market for MND drugs has dulled the pharmaceutical industry's motivation to develop them. Kiernan and Vucic hope their findings - combined with evidence that the incidence of MND seems to be rising, while it is claiming younger victims, with a baffling skew toward male professional athletes in their 30s - will generate more research into the disease. And that one day, a neurologist...
...taken down after it caused people on House open-lists to label it, among other things, “a vaguely pathological sexual fantasy.” Suffice it to say the video’s message, and that of the party generally, was that participating women should bring scant clothes and few inhibitions.And one cannot help but wonder whether there were any private words of reproach that passed between TBTN organizers and their Owl Club co-sponsors. Because publicly, TBTN organizers were inauspiciously mum. One might have expected a disavowal, a roundtable, even a protest.That is, one might expect...
...cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast Tiananmen-like square. This alikeness results largely from a dearth of professional designers and from the fact that breakneck growth leaves scant time for subtlety. But it also reflects a value system in which city infrastructure is conceived in symbolic rather than practical terms and where extravagance is the accepted symbol for modernity...