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...fire our bears or furlough our sea lions.' JOHN CALVELLI, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, on the New York governor's plan to cut funding for zoos and aquariums...
...Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a conflict that has claimed more than 65,000 lives. The Tigers, who pioneered the use of suicide bombers, are agitating for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils--a response to decades of suppression of the country's largest minority. A cease-fire agreement signed in 2002 raised hopes that the bombings, assassinations and terrorism had finally come to an end. But the Tigers and the government failed to reach a meaningful political compromise and returned to war. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised a "military solution" to the Tamil question. He is almost...
Where was the outrage and media coverage when Hamas militants began firing rockets daily into Israel even before the cease-fire was over? If Hamas had believed Israel's threat to retaliate if the attacks did not stop, maybe the death toll would have been limited to only Israel. Miriam Goldman, MINEOLA...
Even if Hamas does agree to a cease-fire, it must persuade other radical militant groups to sign on. Hamas sources told TIME that the other main militant group in Gaza, Islamic Jihad, wants to keep fighting, despite its many casualties. Israeli officials say they have killed hundreds of militants but say privately that there's no way of knowing yet how severe a blow this is to Hamas' military command, which is operating from well-hidden underground bunkers...
TIME's Azmy Keshawi reported by telephone from Gaza that Israeli tanks were advancing on Gaza City along the coastal road, backed by heavy shelling from navy gunships. "One navy shell hit a 13-story apartment building," says Keshawi. "Then when the fire trucks arrived and the firemen were carrying out the injured, a second shell struck the building, and through the clouds of dust I could see many were wounded...