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...pound seizure act," in order to deny researchers access to captured canines and force them to purchase the more expensive lab-bred type. Harvard uses about 2500 pound dogs a year and professors say the measure would make the current level of research prohibitive by boosting animal prices tenfold. It might also stem completely some areas of research, because breeders specialize in smaller dogs, such as beagles, while cardiovascular research, for example requires larger dogs such as German shepherd or retrievers...
...bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some 300 dermatologists and others gathered in Manhattan to discuss the problem at the first World Congress on Cancers of the Skin. Their message: bring back the parasol...
Browsing in tall grass, or showering his parched hide in a cool river, the elephant moves with unhurried majesty. But for how long? In Elephants (Abrams; 255 pages; $50) Photographer Reinhard Künkel notes that during the 1970s a tenfold increase in the price of ivory, from $6 to $60 a kilogram, meant the death sentence for thousands of Africa's pachyderms. Hunters steal into national parks at night and, using automatic weapons, snares and poisoned arrows, kill dozens of animals at a time. The elephants' tusks are cut off and the huge corpses left...
...when Maine sanctioned an official moose season last month for the first time in 47 years, it triggered an angry controversy. State fish and wildlife authorities said that the six days of hunting, during which 880 animals were killed, would not damage a herd that has increased more than tenfold since 1935 to a current population of more than 20,000. But many Down Easters found the slaughter distasteful. Said Outdoorsman John N. Cole, contributing editor of the weekly Maine Times: "The moose is Maine's state animal. If we are going to change that status and hunt...
...greatest burden on passengers thus far has been an increase in the number and length of flight delays caused by the strike. During the first three weeks of October, takeoff waits of more than 30 min. occurred on 649 flights, a tenfold increase over the same period a year...