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...employs job-hungry villagers and gives them a financial stake in the new forests, which is key if conservation is going to work. To save the animals, you need to save the trees, and to save the trees, you need to save the people. "We're bringing back the shelter of the forests, and we don't have to cut trees for charcoal," says Herve Tahirimalala, 28, who is paid about $100 a month to work the plantation - a decent wage in one of the poorest nations on Earth. Poverty and habitat loss go hand in hand in Madagascar...
...That was, however, until I discovered the joys of bureaucratic control myself—that summer I worked in a Parisian office that found shelter, food, and jobs for the city’s homeless. With all of our clients in precarious situations, it felt good locating someone a place to sleep for the night or printing out someone’s very first resume...
...name, click enter, and some sort of formula spits out your very own Palin-esque name. I'm Wood Corps Palin. My sister Chelsea gets rechristened Tape Boise Palin. My brother Brandon? Tarp Lazer Palin. Wood, Tape, and Tarp: baby names you could use to build a temporary outdoor shelter. Very Alaska. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator...
House Democrats passed a bill Tuesday night that would end a 26-year ban on drilling for oil in federal waters 50 miles or more from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts - in a belated attempt to find political shelter from Republican election attacks over gas prices. But even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi steered the bill through procedural hurdles to passage during the day, Senator John McCain demonstrated the continued power of the issue on the campaign trail...
...Islamabad, with U.S. and Saudi funding, sent thousands of men across the border to join Afghans in fighting the Soviets. The Pakistani military used religious schools in the borderland to train and equip Afghan mujahedin and to heal them when they returned. More than 3 million Afghan refugees took shelter in Pakistan's cities and in makeshift camps. But after the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the U.S. lost interest in the region. Afghanistan's war of liberation turned into a civil war, and the Pakistani government--led by Bhutto and her political rival Nawaz Sharif, who alternated in power--backed...