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Striding majestically across the savanna, the African elephant is an unmistakable symbol of power and strength. As recently as the 1970s, its numbers were so great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is one of its glories: the huge creature's magnificent tusks of ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa...
...very good time, Vail has hundreds of shops, nightclubs, restaurants and bars. The easiest way to get rid of a lot of money is to buy a Golden Bear, which is, as its name implies, a golden bear on a chain. For less than $1000 it's a status symbol which any Preppy Handbook owner will recognize. There is also Ralph Lauren, Cartier, Gucci and Laura Ashley...
...symbol that we understand what these families are going through," said Clinical Professor of Pediatrics T. Barry Brazelton, who works at Children's Hospital in Boston...
...people of affluence returned to the more normal thing: they had it, they showed it. And that radiated throughout society. When I was spending time in the Bronx, I saw young black men wearing chains with what I thought was the peace symbol. I thought, how interesting that these young men, living in such difficult circumstances, would still be concerned about such issues as world peace. And then I came to realize that these weren't peace symbols -- they were the hood ornament from a Mercedes. And they knew everything about a Mercedes, how much it cost, how fast...
Though it is a solidly rooted Washington tradition, the National Prayer Breakfast does have its critics. Some Fundamentalists thought interfaith amity was stretched too far last year, when Saudi Arabia's Ambassador recited from the Qur'an. Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...