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...This vast animal kingdom, a deal involving South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, guarantees the lives of at least 1,000 elephants. Instead of being culled because their habitat can't sustain them, they will be trucked-in the world's biggest managed wildlife migration - from South Africa's Kruger Park to Mozambique...
...impact on overall production. "People want it to be Desert Storm," says Bernard Aronson, the senior State Department official for Latin America during the first Bush Administration. "It's not. It is a long war of attrition. There is progress over time. We just need the political will to sustain the fight." And to swallow the hard realities of a slow war: a recent State Department report notes that total overseas U.S. antidrug spending is about $1.9 billion a year, or, as the report says, roughly the "street value of 19 metric tons of cocaine. The drug cartels have lost...
...Small can be beautiful when recruiting new employers. One of the oldest industries in the Tupelo area is furniture, which today accounts for nearly 40% of the region's manufacturing jobs. Local leaders have worked to sustain that industry by, for example, building a trade-show facility the size of four football fields. But they have also labored to attract firms across a broad range of industries. Says Thomas Griffith, mayor of Amory, just south of Tupelo: "We don't want to be too dependent on any one industry. If one plant shuts down, it doesn't hamstring the total...
...report: "Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another Ice Age." These doom-and-gloomers confuse even themselves. Perhaps these alarmists should ponder the idea that global climatic fluctuations are out of our control and that the God who has created the earth will also nourish it and sustain it. GARY HAERTEL Sussex...
...best start for the Minutemen since 1981, and it is the first time in 10 years that UMass has been able to sustain a winning streak into the double digits. Only Quinnipiac, with 12 straight wins, has a longer streak going...