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...China's forests once teemed with pangolin. But the reproductive capacity of the slow-moving mammal is no match for Chinese appetites, and pangolins have been all but eradicated on the mainland. Now gourmets, traditional medicine practitioners and businessmen looking to show off their wealth rely on the likes of Jema'ah. But even in distant Sumatran forests, the pangolin is growing harder to find. "I used to catch big ones" of up to 20 kilograms, Jema'ah says. "But the biggest I catch these days are eight kilos...
...Bush's slow response to Katrina was a national disgrace. Officials knew that the storm was coming and that there was going to be massive devastation. The President should have been mobilizing troops and supplies long before the hurricane ever hit. After it struck, poor people died because they had no food and water and no way out. Hospital patients, including infants, died because hospitals had no supplies or power. Looting was rampant because troops were slow to be mobilized and there were too few of them. I bet that if Bush felt he needed the military in the Middle...
...block one of Brown’s defensive backs at the first-down marker. As running back Clifton Dawson neared the spot, he, Mazza, and a number of Bears defenders were tossed into the same heap, with Mazza somewhere near the bottom. As the pile thinned, Mazza was slow to get up, the damage already apparent...
Regardless, the injury could not have come at a worse time for Harvard’s young offense. Senior Rodney Byrnes is already sidelined with a sprained hamstring and has been slow to recover from injury in the past, and just one member of the Crimson who is likely to dress next weekend—senior Ryan Tyler—has caught more than 20 balls in a season...
...around the world, from Helsinki to Pittsburgh to Seoul, to test the feasibility of broadcasting TV programs to mobile phones. Lots of companies would like to see the trials succeed. Handset firms like Nokia stand to sell more - and more expensive - gadgets, after seeing sales of more ordinary phones slow recently; broadcasters could enjoy a spike in viewers and advertising revenue; and mobile operators, at least initially, could boost their turnovers, too. London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion...