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...Though India remains the world's last significant sanctuary for wild tigers, the numbers there are dwindling fast. The country's wild tiger population has dropped from about 100,000 in the 19th century to as few as 1,200 to 1,800 today. In another five years this feline population could plunge to a level-around 500 cats-where in many parts of India it would no longer be able to sustain itself. At that point, they would survive almost exclusively in zoolike safari parks. "India is letting the tiger slip through its fingers," says Belinda Wright, director...
...thousands of men-many without arms and legs-who might otherwise have died ... BUT THE REAL DEVILS OF THE WAR WORK IN THE MIND. Something like a quarter of those who served may still be suffering from substantial psychological problems. They get flashbacks, nightmares, depression, startle reactions, and that wild red haze of rage in the brain when self-control goes and adrenaline shakes the whole frame, and some terrific violence struggles to cut loose. That is Vietnam combat doing its wild repertory in the theater of a vet's nerves." Read more at timearchive.com...
...Cinematographers are also known as lighting cameramen. Well, Alton was a darkening cameraman. "Where there is no light, one cannot see," he wrote in his book. "And when one cannot see, his imagination runs wild. He begins to suspect that something is about to happen.In the dark there is mystery." Alton put this theory into practice, spectacularly; he become the master of visual mystery...
...wild card is Syria, which has a strategic alliance with Iran, backs Hizballah, and serves as the logistical bridge between Tehran and the Lebanese group. Syria is in a position to put considerable pressure on Hizballah to cooperate. But unless Syria is either put under unbearable pressure, or is offered the carrot of a resumption of negotiations aimed at the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, President Bashar Assad is unlikely to make a deal with Washington, especially at the expense of Hizballah and Iran...
...crucial part of many ecosystems--and their role in pollinating crops makes them important to the economy as well. That's why scientists are alarmed by a new study in the journal Science. Over the past 26 years, say European researchers, the diversity of species in British and Dutch wild bees--and the wildflowers they favor--has plummeted. That's not to say there are fewer bees (some species are thriving) but there are fewer varieties, and that is not good news. An ecosystem with fewer species is like a baseball team with only a couple of good pitchers: there...