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Alligator populations rebounded rapidly. Says Klinger: "All we had to do was stop the poachers, and the gators did the rest." In Alabama, for example, biologists reported a tenfold increase in alligators between the mid-1970s and the early '80s. By 1985 the FWS declared the animal no longer endangered in Louisiana, Florida and Texas, where 90% of the animals live, and last month it extended that decision to the seven other states where gators are found. "We've got more alligators than we know what to do with," exclaims Klinger, who says there may now be several million...
...usual when a flood of newly minted goods hits the market, rarities of yesteryear have become more valuable. So-called rookie cards marking the first appearance of such stars as the Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose, for example, have jumped tenfold in price over the past five years. A Rose card is now worth as much as $450. On the other hand, images of New York Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden have fared poorly. Gooden's recent drug disability has sent his 1984 Fleer rookie card crashing in value from $120 to $70 in a matter of weeks...
...hard put to offer any specifics beyond suggesting that federal employees in "sensitive" jobs, like air- traffic controllers, be required to undergo drug testing. Until now the Administration has focused on interdiction -- catching drug smugglers and . their booty at the border. But while federal seizures of cocaine have increased tenfold in five years, the available supply on the street has not been dented...
...Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus ("a Spanish soldier who gave up the ways of war for that path of love and peace"), and Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of nonviolence, Reagan recalled, had said, "If you approached people with trust and affection, you would have tenfold trust and thousandfold affection returned...
...city much like London," Shelley once wrote. "A populous and smoky city. . ./Small justice shown, and still less pity." The London that impressed him in 1819 as a metropolitan inferno had just over 1 million inhabitants, hardly more than today's Bronx. Yet though London has swollen tenfold since then, it has been overtaken by still faster-growing hells: not only Mexico City but Cairo, Calcutta, Shanghai and others. By the end of the century, according to the U.N., at least 22 cities will have populations of more than 10 million, and 60 will have more than 5 million...