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...Pangolin are not the only species being driven toward extinction across Asia by China's demand for exotic, edible wildlife. "As purchasing power in China grows, demand has just exploded," says James Compton, who runs the Southeast Asia office of TRAFFIC, the most prominent group fighting the illegal wildlife trade worldwide. Tim Redford, a Bangkok-based researcher for the conservation group WildAid, estimates that between 1% and 10% of smuggled animals are seized by government officials in efforts to combat an illegal industry worth billions of dollars annually. Between 1999 and 2003, Chinese authorities alone seized 18,850 live endangered...
...would not be all bad for mobile operators. Not only would it save some revenue for them, but it would also allow them to free capacity on their networks for their core product - voice. Sports (and, of course, porn) is expected to be a big driver of mobile-TV traffic, just as it has been for mobile-phone video. German broadcasters and mobile operators are hoping to have the service in place for the 2006 World Cup, while Nokia plans to sell TV-compatible handsets in commercial volumes by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The conventional wisdom is that people will...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences doctoral student Kevin Haninger, also a resident of the building, questioned yesterday whether the high-traffic area is as safe as it is perceived...
...This would mean 100 percent of the truck traffic would pass through Cowperthwaite Street and would result in a big yellow concrete wall being erected which would divide Cowperthwaite in half,” she wrote...
...overheated their engines. According to radio reports, even though officials called for an evacuation, they never anticipated this many people actually would leave. Katrina apparently spooked everyone. Fuel trucks that were supposed to be at rest stops along evacuation routes are stuck helplessly in traffic. "They're saying if you have an 1/8 tank of gas or less to get off the roads and let other people escape," mom says. Despite 100-degree heat, she turned off the car's air conditioner a couple hours ago. Instead, she's holding an umbrella out the window to block...