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Savage, who distinguished himself first as amember of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) andnow in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), is aformer winner of the WWF's Intercontinental Titleas well as the WWF and WCW's respective heavyweight championships...
Which is fine, but this movie tries to be serious about it, saying that Lowe discovers himself by thumping Thunder Bay's chief goon. It works about as well as a Lit & Arts class would about the WWF...
Even so, the rest of television will remain. On Saturdays alone, kids can watch as many as seven hours of WCW and WWF wrestling. Daytime talk shows like Ricki Lake are aiming at younger and younger audiences. Six-year-olds can watch reruns of the raunchy sitcom Married . with Children well before their bedtime. Then there are the commercials. Pay attention, for instance, to an ad for Starburst candy in which the adult world magically disappears when you pop a Starburst into your mouth. The message is clear and dangerous: kids can make things better by ingesting this incredibly cool...
Both countries have recently moved to protect these ecosystems. On the basis of recommendations by MacKinnon and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Vietnamese government has expanded the Vu Quang reserve from 40,000 to 150,000 acres and shut down logging in the park. Vu Quang connects to the 900,000-acre Nakai Nam Theum National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos, and if current proposals are adopted, the two areas will be joined to an additional 750,000 acres of reserves and the surrounding mountainous forests in Vietnam. There are also proposals to enlarge and link protected areas...
Still, there is reason to hope that the remote, forbidding region will be preserved. Says David Hulse, head of wwf's efforts in Vietnam: "Hunting only supplements the diets of local villagers, and it imposes little hardship to ask them to put it aside if that is necessary to protect unique natural treasures." Moreover, some influential Vietnamese have become alarmed at the stripping of the nation's forests. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the legendary architect of North Vietnamese military strategy during the wars against France and the U.S., has reportedly remarked to visitors that Vietnam did not fight for decades...