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...save it. After a day in Antananarivo - a sprawling, diesel-soaked city that earns the adjective "teeming" - we leave by car for Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade. On the winding road we see the result of centuries of tavy, traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. The verdant forests that once covered much of Madagascar have been burnt or torn down, replaced by muddy rice paddies and secondary shrubs. This loss of habitat is the primary driver of extinction on Madagascar. The trees support a web of life, from the hefty indri...
...calculation, Bensenville is a necessary casualty. "This is a project of national significance," says Rosemarie Andolino, the OMP's executive director, who rattles off the airport-expansion plan's hefty benefits: up to 195,000 new jobs, an annual $18 billion boost in economic activity and the potential to slash average passenger delays at one of the country's most congested airports from...
...failure of Jews to accept Jesus, as happened at one of Palin's churches two weeks ago (though Palin has now issued a statement saying she does not agree with those views). And they would disagree with Palin's decision to use her line-item veto as Governor to slash funding for an Alaska shelter that serves teen mothers...
...banking and telecom sectors, and grants from Western governments as well as its own, the Dar al-Salaam sends theater groups and poets to enlighten tribes and schools. It also runs awareness campaigns, emblazoning water bottles and street signs with an anti-gun logo - a Kalashnikov with a red slash drawn through...
...them. People like Stern, says Dr. Harvey Greenberg, professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, are ''part of a narcissistic culture, where you don't always recognize your impact on other people, and your own little turf is the most important.'' The difficulty most people have with slash-and-burn comedy is separating the conceptual satire (''Look how uptight people are over these words!'') from the real-world impact (''How can he say that about black people?!''). Comedians themselves are much better at keeping the two distinct. After spewing out ethnic insults on the Tonight Show, Don Rickles...