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...fancy Bangkok restaurant, a tureen of shark's fin soup will set you back as much as $250. But the real cost is to the environment, according to WildAid, a San Francisco-based environmental foundation. WildAid says the oceans' ecosystem is under threat from the annual slaughter of an estimated more than 50 million sharks, and the organization launched a print- and TV-ad campaign in mid-2001 that shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been...
...about the Bride (Uma Thurman), a hit woman who had been "jetting around the world killing human beings and being paid vast sums of money" as a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad--DIVAS for short. In Vol. 1 she went straight, got left for dead in the slaughter of her wedding party and, years later, began to take revenge on the killers: the rest of the DIVAS and their charismatic boss, Bill (David Carradine). Vol. 2 finishes the tale as the Bride tracks down Bill's brother Budd (Michael Madsen) and one-eyed Elle (Daryl Hannah) before...
...study examined U.S. responses to such horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians, the Nazi Holocaust, the crimes of Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds. In each case, Power argued, U.S. policymakers "did almost nothing to deter the crime." During atrocities like Saddam's slaughter of the Kurds and the Hutu killing of 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda, the U.S.'s refusal to intervene emboldened the killers even more...
...even pass through Sunni-dominated Fallujah--it has allowed the insurgency to fester. The Marines came to the Euphrates River town last month hoping to show a kinder face to residents than they had experienced at the hands of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. But after the slaughter of four American contractors in Fallujah early this month, U.S. commanders decided to reclaim the city. Last Monday about 1,500 Marines of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and some Army special forces--along with 2,000 Iraqi security troops and about 50 U.S.-trained Iraqi commandos--began debriding Fallujah...
...calling for direct intervention ... However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims. The American appetite for such missions, even in cases of dire human need, has been dulled by experiences like Somalia. "Lesson No. 1," President Clinton said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only...