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...fauna over millions of years, Archer began to grasp its predictive power. Riversleigh, he says, has changed ideas about which creatures should be seen as endangered. Here, the news is good, bad . . . and dire. The koala, for example, appears safer than conservationists had imagined. Its population and habitat have shrunk in the two centuries since European settlement. "But when we go back into the deep time," says Archer, "what we find is that 23 million years ago, koalas were incredibly rare." Of the 30,000 fossils extracted from Riversleigh, just six represent koalas. "They're the Rolls Royce...
Distances have shrunk since then, of course, and Jefferson's notion that the country's population would never strain its seemingly limitless resources comes off as ridiculously shortsighted now. What's more, the Virginian couldn't have foreseen the way in which America's thirst for oil would place it at the mercy of foreign powers. A global economy changes everything...
...Okazaki admits this is Mitsubishi's "last chance." Analysts say it may already be too late. Japan has 11 companies making cars and trucks, while the total market has shrunk by about a quarter since its 1990 peak. Mitsubishi's market share in passenger- and mini-cars has sunk to a meager 3.8%. The company "could disappear tomorrow, and no one would miss it," says John Harris, a Tokyo-based auto consultant...
...make a great strategic fit, his critics point out, but Vivendi is a far more manageable enterprise. Two-thirds of the debt is gone, and he plans to reduce it to just $5.99 billion by the end of the year. He has laid off about 3,000 employees and shrunk the company to 55,000 people, from more than 250,000 when he took over. Cash flow is positive again on $29.96 billion in revenues, operating profits are growing sharply, and the company promises shareholders it will resume paying a dividend...
...path to success - even its measure - are becoming increasingly murky, the subject of probing hearings this week by the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Restoring a semblance of security in Iraq is the immediate challenge facing the U.S. and its coalition, which has shrunk over the past week as Spain was joined by Honduras and the Dominican Republic in announcing its troops would be leaving. It's not yet over, but April has been the bloodiest month of the war, with some 93 coalition troops and upward of 1,000 Iraqis killed in clashes in the Sunni Triangle...