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Today the world is awash in oil. Prices have been falling, and OPEC ministers meeting in Geneva last week refused to accede to Iran's demands for price increases. Aramco now buys its oil from the Saudis and does little more than manage the oilfields for the kingdom of...
When Naturalist-Author Hal Borland died in 1978, he left a shelf of more than 30 books, as well as thousands of "outdoor editorials" written over a period of 36 years for the Sunday New York Times. He also left the text of a volume intended as a celebration of...
The last edition included a litany of the Press-Scimitar's successes in its 103 years. It had been particularly effective in crusades against corruption in city government, for bringing Tennessee Valley Authority power to Memphis and for conservation. There was also as much information as was known about...
The immediate threat to the giant panda is not man but nature. In their high-altitude retreats in the remote regions of central China, giant pandas survive almost entirely on bamboo. "It's 99.9% of their diet," says George Schaller, director of the Animal Research and Conservation Center at...
But the pandas' best hope in the long run probably lies with the Wolong Research and Conservation Center, scheduled for completion this month. Designed jointly by William Conway, director of the Bronx Zoo, and Chinese colleagues, the sprawling mountainside complex will become the world's premier panda research...