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...policy of hunting down the stray bison has been a public relations disaster. Of the park's 2,700 bison, 700 were killed by last spring, and an additional 11 have been slain this winter. The hunt is hardly sporting, protesters claim, since the Yellowstone bison have been conditioned not to view humans as enemies. "These animals are used to the click of the camera, not the crack of the rifle," argued Wayne Pacelle, national director of the Fund for Animals, in an editorial in USA Today. "When the hunters approach, the animals don't flee. They merely stare...
...other side, the Fund for Animals filed suit in federal court seeking an injunction against the hunt. The protesters contended that there was no proof that Yellowstone bison are a danger to livestock. The strain of brucellosis found in bison may not be virulent enough to pose a significant risk to domestic cattle. "They're making policy without data," charges biologist and bison researcher Jay Kirkpatrick. Says Pacelle: "If people want to graze cattle on the Yellowstone ecosystem, they need to assume some limited risk...
Last week a U.S. district judge in Montana rejected such arguments and denied the request by the Fund for Animals to stop the bison hunt. Citing the threat that brucellosis infection will spread to cattle, Judge Charles Lovell maintained that "hunting is a time-honored avocation and a legitimate and recognized method of animal control." The Fund for Animals promptly filed an appeal...
Arrogance seems to have made Gotti careless. In two previous trials, prosecutors relied heavily on tapes made from bugs planted in the Ravenite club, his main Manhattan base. They had also recorded conversations from his neighborhood headquarters, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, across the East River in Queens. Although the tapes were so noisy and scratchy that jurors had great difficulty deciphering the dialogue, Gotti obviously knew that his haunts were wired. Even a public telephone in one of Gotti's favorite Little Italy restaurants, Taormina, has a sign saying, WARNING -- THIS PHONE IS BUGGED...
...deepwater quest began in 1984, when the Hunt brothers pioneered some of the new production techniques in a subterranean formation known as Green Canyon, some 240 km (150 miles) southwest of New Orleans. But they failed to make the big strike they needed to salvage their collapsing financial empire. Conoco followed the Hunts and had more luck, finding sizable deposits at the * 535-m (1,760-ft.) level. The company, with Occidental and Texaco, spent $400 million to build the world's deepest production platform, and has been producing from 20 wells for about a year...