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...Bayou Bob" Popplewell, the owner the Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch south of Dallas, is the founder U.S. Turtle and Aquatic Resource Technologies (USTART), a cooperative with some 400 members who collect and sell turtles primarily to the Asian market. "This is a vast renewable resource that we can harvest and manage wisely," Popplewell says...
...succeed Jacques Chirac in the Elysée. The win also gives Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority party (UMP) a considerable boost ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 10 and 17, where victory would give the right the power necessary to push through the vast modernization and liberalization program promised by Sarkozy...
...Developing nations make the point that they're not responsible for the vast majority of carbon dioxide hanging around in the atmosphere, which was put there by Western countries during their own development over the past 150 years. They argue that their own per-capita emissions rates are still far lower than those of Western nations, and that therefore climate change isn't their responsibility. True, but wrong. Future global warming will hinge on how we deal with future carbon emissions, most of which will come from developing Asia. The gravity of climate change politics has moved east, to China...
...what can we learn from Jamestown? There is of course the tangible. The research being done at Historic Jamestowne, including some breakthrough discoveries in recent years, is giving us new insights into exactly what took place so long ago. Since 1994, in fact, archaeologists have uncovered a vast array of artifacts--ceramics, jewelry, tools, coins, furnishings, food, armor and arms--that have illuminated the conditions, trials, troubles and heroics of this colonial English outpost in the New World. Simply as a story of humanity in adversity, it is a stunning and instructive tale...
...pointed response to the U.S. decision to install missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The American justification is that NATO needs to extend its defenses against a potential attack from Iran, but few Russians accept that argument. Poland and the Czech Republic are a vast distance from Iran, so Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit the states of the former...