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...powerful need for control -- physical, emotional, even financial. He may keep his wife under close surveillance, isolating her from family and friends, forbidding her to work or calling constantly to check on her whereabouts. Woven into the scrutiny are insults and threats that in the end can destroy a woman's confidence and leave her feeling trapped between her fear of staying in a violent home -- and her fear of fleeing...
Does the White House, for example, have the right to destroy electronic messages created in the course of running the government? That issue came to a head last week when a federal judge barred the Bush Administration from erasing computer tapes containing E-mail dating back to the Reagan era -- including electronic memos that are relevant to Iran-contra and might implicate officials in the Iraqgate and Clinton passport scandals...
...narrower range of crops, which in turn increases the likelihood of major disruptions of the food supply by pests and droughts. Particularly in the developing world, cities act as destructive parasites on the surrounding countryside. Urban thirst for fuel wood and building materials leads to deforestation, which can destroy an area's watershed and thus cause flooding and soil erosion. In many cases, the impact of urban centers extends across the seas. Demand for plywood building materials in Japanese cities drives the decimation of Borneo's forests...
...This is really crummy," Stilgoe said. "This is a required text...If the Coop isn't paying its bills, this could destroy confidence in placing textbook orders with the Coop...
...state of Alaska made an abrupt about-face on its plan to destroy hundreds of gray wolves next year. In an effort to attract more tourists and big-game hunters, state officials had announced in November that they would cull the state's 7,000-member wolf population (wolves are not endangered in Alaska). They argued that the move was needed to boost the number of caribou and moose on which the wolf packs generally feed. But a growing boycott of Alaskan cruises by some of the very tourists the state had meant to attract forced officials to cancel their...