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...second Russian Revolution two weeks ago. China's democracy movement yielded to the tanks on Tiananmen Square, but many of its leaders -- and, more important, its followers -- will be back. Any form of government that can survive only as long as the authorities are willing to slaughter citizens in the streets can't last forever, or even, these days, for long. For that reason the other Asian politburos, in North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, are also doomed...
...wasp called Hunterellus hookeri. Success is uncertain. The wasps do kill some tick nymphs, but may in fact need a large and healthy tick population to maintain their own numbers. Other drastic preventives that householders mutter about while untaping their trousers -- region-wide burning of fields, pesticide spraying or slaughter of deer -- are just not politically or environmentally feasible...
They are called "canned hunts," but by any name they are slaughter, not sport, with no vestige of a fair contest between man and beast. In pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars to shoot defenseless exotic animals at point-blank range. There is no accurate count of the number of such killings, but authorities are finally beginning to crack down on them...
ETHICS This kind of hunting isn't sport, it's slaughter...
Unfortunately, the evident health dangers to women from Rust do not have equally evident political benefits. When matched against a picture of innocent babies being sent to slaughter, images of ill mothers--often minority, unwed and young--elicit little sympathy from moderates and conservatives in Congress...