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...that threatened to come to an end last month when a federal judge ruled that while the program's goals might be noble, its methods are illegal. The only solution, he declared, is to remove the transplanted animals. In the cruel calculus of the wild, "remove" could mean "kill." If the judge's decision survives appeals, the next time the helicopters appear, the rifles may be loaded not with nets but with bullets. "This is a defining issue of right and wrong," says National Wildlife Federation president Mark Van Putten. "It would be morally wrong to exterminate them a second...
This provision was always the wolf project's Achilles' heel, and almost immediately opponents exploited it--though not in the way conservationists expected. In 1995, separate suits were filed by a group of petitioners arguing that the wolf program is illegal. Since there is still a small population of indigenous wolves left in the U.S., and since it's impossible to determine whether a rogue spotted outside the park is part of the relocated population, a farmer who kills a wolf--as a few already have--just might be killing a native animal, something the Endangered Species Act forbids...
...short program, Kwan, who spent much of 1997 in one prolonged tumble and the past two months recovering from a stress fracture of her left toe, showed no sign of faltering. Seven of nine judges deemed her presentation perfection, awarding the first 6.0s ever at the Nationals in the ladies' short program. And then, transported by Lyra Angelica, she seemed to float through every jump of her long program on Saturday night, even the triple toe loop that placed painful pressure on her toe. "I was like, I'm free and I'm gone," she said. "Cloud nine, here...
...sort of fairy confidence in easy landings. And until last week, her biggest gremlin was her triple Lutz, dubbed the "triple flutz" because she cheats slightly on the takeoff by leaning heavily on the inside of her blade. Then she stumbled on the triple flip in the short program, drawing marks as low as 5.2 for technical merit. She dropped to fourth place and later insisted in a teary voice that the fall was "not a doubting thing or a technical problem, just a fluke." The flub was shoved into the past by her solid long program set to music...
...competition, by contrast, initially seemed like a competition of one. Four-time National champion Todd Eldredge, as staid as he is flawless, landed all his jumps in the short program, winning easily to the tune of Walk on the Wild Side from the movie Casino. It was clean and neat but hardly the stuff of high drama...