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...Penan, a people out of time, the last hunter-gatherers in Asia. Once masters of a seemingly endless rain forest that covers Borneo, almost all of the 9,000 Penan have given up the struggle against what must once have seemed a ludicrous impossibility: that loggers would sweep through all but a tiny fraction of Sarawak's forests, polluting rivers, driving animals away and bulldozing the trees and plants that for centuries have served as the Penan's medicine cabinet, toolbox and larder. There are barely 200 fully nomadic Penan left: small groups of two or three families who refuse...
Party affiliation helped shape lawmakers' reactions. Republicans on both sides of the issue expressed mild disappointment but are sticking by their guy. Some Democrats are asking for a vote to sweep aside Bush's narrow compromise...
...help thinking of attacks by sharks as their revenge for our overfishing some shark species to the point of near extinction and for entangling and slowly killing them with factory-fishing drift nets that sweep the seas. GILBERT SCHWARTZ Aventura...
...cholesterol could not explain all heart attacks, then Ridker was determined to find out what else could. His childhood experience with his own immune disorder and his yearlong fellowship in sub-Saharan Africa in 1983, just as the AIDS epidemic was beginning its sweep around the globe, convinced him that preventing disease was as important as treating conditions once they occurred...
...vacation for a month. So he did research on gondolas for a couple of months, and in September met up with one of the few remaining master gondola makers, Daniele Bonaldo, 69, a squerariolo who had been in the business since he left primary school. "I used to sweep the floors, pick up the bent nails and straighten them out so we could still use them," says Bonaldo. "We didn't throw them away like we do today...