Easier target in Australia : the wild pig
Australia's most extensive drought in a century is aiding a battle against one of its worst pests : wild pigs that eat crops and lamba and spread diseases. Dry weather is forcing the wild pigs,
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Someone's killing California brown pelicans
Life is rarely easy for the California brown pelican, even with its number son the rebound. Fish hooks are a constant danger, tearing holes in the birds bodies and causing dangerous infections.
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A global right to know
In 1984, 40 tones of lethal gas leaded form a Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Thousands of people were killed. The disaster in India led the U.S. Congress to pass a law requiring
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Don't make Europe gag
The Bush administration recently announced that it is considering taking actin against the European Union because of its ban on imports of genetically modified foods. It's profoundly bad idea. As a
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From nuclear site to wildlife refuge
In the 1950s and
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Specialists cast doubt on smallpox vaccination
Serious doubts about the president's smallpox vaccination plan have emerged at a Senate hearing from the very health care professionals who have been asked to get or administer the injections. The
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The vaccine gap
As the world struggles to fend off mysterious and complex plagues like AIDS and malaria, it must still find a sustainable way to assure that children do not die from diseases that vaccines can
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For 15 million in India, a childhood of salvery
Nallanayaki, a child worker cannot leave the silk loom in a small town in Tamil Nadu, until she pays the $146 loan her parents took from her employer. But her salary of less than 17 cents a day
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Drought hits grape yield in Australia
The Australian grape harvest could fall 10 percent as drought withers vines in South Australia's Riverland district, a major source of fruit for Southcorp Ltd., BRL Hardy Ltd. and Pernod-Richard SA,
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Bush's empty promises
Everyone expects a certain amount of hokum in a State of the Union address. But for artful misdirection it's hard to top the three paragraphs in which President George W.Bush promised to protect the