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...passed. Says Fearing: "I would be shocked if this legislature is prepared to enact any tax this year, much less one levied on pet owners who are struggling to care for their animals, when many of them are dropping them off at shelters." (See TIME's photo-essay "Puppies Behind Bars...
...department in Vinh Phuc province, is not hopeful. High temperatures and evaporation are the enemy. "Even if farmers bail every single drop of water to nurture the rice," he says, he fears that a third of the rice crop in his province could be lost. (See TIME's photo-essay "China-Vietnam Border War, 30 Years Later...
...been in uncontrollable pain. "The fear of pain is the critical factor for parents with regard to hastening death," says Dr. Joanna Wolfe, one of the study's authors and the director of pediatric palliative care at Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston. (See TIME's photo-essay "Cancer Survivors' Inspirational Stories...
...TIME's Photo Essay "Wildly in Love...
These developments bring to the fore the rapaciousness of the process associated with the modern idea of development, which often considers some people expendable for a fabricated idea of “the greater common good.” Noted activist Arundhati Roy’s essay of the same name charted—through her example of dam building—how much havoc the process of development has caused. It is a well-known fact that approximately 40 percent of the land acquired for development projects in India belonged to adivasis. Recently, a committee composed of none other...