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Owners of marine parks and dolphin shows claim to be educating the public. But about what? Certainly not about a dolphin's natural habitat. It is not natural for a dolphin to swim in circles in a man-made tank, exposed to loud music; shallow, chemically treated water; and humans. It is not natural for a hungry dolphin to play basketball, tail-walk, sing or dance just to get a dead fish. Buying a ticket to see or play with a captive dolphin is what increases the demand for their capture and subsequently their death...
...around the world. Intelligence officials also feel that, despite a near 20% decline in anti-American terrorism incidents over the past decade, the war against terror may be unwinnable. "It's one of these phenomena we have to live with," says Bruce Hoffman of Rand, the California-based think tank. "It's the price we pay for being a superpower...
...middle of Arizona's Sonoran Desert, the bright-blue flag and the 65-gal. water tank are hard to miss. This is no mirage; it's the work of a small volunteer group called Humane Borders, which last year began to erect emergency watering stations in the desert to help aliens stay alive as they try to enter the U.S. As the Rev. Robin Hoover hauls heavy plastic containers of water from his car, he explains its mission: "We want to take death out of the equation...
...congressional deadlock and government shutdown. In 1996, she was named vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, working with Alan Greenspan on managing an economy that permitted a maximum of growth without inflation. Currently, she holds a Senior Fellowship in the Brookings Institute, a Washington-based think tank where future Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers has been spending his past few months. Today, she will be receiving a Doctorate of Laws...
October 1, 1973: War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles rage along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights...