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...province was recently jailed for 12 years for killing and eating what might well have been the country's last wild Indochinese tiger. But the laws are patchily enforced. In December the SFA released a directive promising better protection of wild tigers and a sterner crackdown on the illegal trade. Many conservationists remain unconvinced. "We've heard these words before from China," says Mike Baltzer, leader of the World Bank - backed Global Tiger Initiative at the conservation group WWF. "We're waiting to see if they really have any teeth." Vivek Menon, executive director of the Wildlife Trust of India...
...economy flails, more cash-strapped consumers are embracing ye olde practice of bartering, often facilitated by that most modern of marketplaces, the Internet. Bartering is way up on Swaptree, Zwaggle and Craigslist, where, for example, a user in Memphis, Tenn., is looking to trade a new pair of boots for a kitchen faucet. But there's a complication to all this happy swapping: the IRS views bartered goods and services as reportable income. The agency has even set up the Bartering Tax Center. So does everyone need to report every little swap? "There are no tax implications for the type...
...mastermind of the 2002 attack in Kenya, who was killed by U.S. helicopter gunships last September. The U.S. has had no military support from other nations, although some have made contributions to help deal with Somalia's long humanitarian crisis. Only piracy and the threat it poses to world trade have resulted in concerted international muscle. An armada of warships from more than 20 countries now hunts pirates and escorts convoys of merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...battle against the Taliban intensified recently when NATO and Afghan forces launched the largest offensive since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan more than eight years ago. Fifteen thousand NATO and Afghan troops laid siege to the Taliban stronghold of Marjah. The center of Helmand province's opium-poppy trade, a major source of Taliban funds, Marjah had long been a no-go area for NATO troops. At the same time, in the Pakistani port of Karachi, a raid on a seminary by CIA and Pakistani intelligence agents netted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's military commander...
...believes that for the majority of Americans who don't attend elite schools, “the degree you get is a bigger influencer of your pay” than where you went to college. But if you get your giggles from Gatsby, don’t trade in the Barker Center for the Science Center just yet. Lee acknowledges that an English major from Harvard could end up making six figures—still, he insists that such a case would be an exception...