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...summers I have seen ten to twenty Northern Spotted Owls while working in the field with the Olympic National Park owl crew in Washington State. Today, a chance sighting of a spotted owl in the wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled to a few thousand birds. Forced from the dwindling groves of spruce and hemlock trees, the owls have retreated slowly westward over the last few decades. Now, just miles from the Pacific, in the low river valleys beneath the Olympic mountains, the spotted owl is living out its numbered days...
...Times declined to explain the peacefulness of Florence and, with this lack of creativity, actually grasped the truth which eluded some European news sources: Florence was of a different cloth than Genoa. Florence was a strategy and networking session for a new European left. Fifty-five thousand people from 88 countries gathered for five days of multi-lingual debate attempting to articulate their new-found unity. They continued a conversation sparked by Genoa and formalized at this spring’s World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering...
...Afghanistan; Washington was so concerned about their potential for trouble afterward that it offered as much as $100,000 per missile to try to buy them back. But shoulder-fired missiles made in Yugoslavia, Pakistan and China slosh around the weapons black market, where they sell for a few thousand dollars each...
...week boot camp on the west coast of Norway took a few thousand future soldiers through physical training, marching and lessons in weaponry. “You take your gun apart about 2,000 times a day,” Klokk says with a roll of his eyes. The extensive training seems to have left him relatively unscathed. “It’s not so hard,” he says coolly. “It’s the fact they keep you going all the time. You get very little sleep. You’re always...
...HUPD officers were sent to Eliot House to shut down a party, after receiving a report of a thousand unruly students. Officers from the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) arrived to help disperse the students...