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The WWF and International Rhino Foundation last week announced that the Javan rhino was now extinct in Viet Nam and that only 40-50 were left in the world, all in Indonesia. Viet Nam News reporters Thu Huong and Hoa Tran spoke to conservationists about the need to protect remaining critically endangered species. Continue reading here: Time running out...

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The collapse of Sun Biofuels has left hundreds of Tanzanians landless, jobless, and in despair for the future Continued here: UK firm's failed biofuel dream wrecks lives of Tanzania villagers

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Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of "superweeds," according to a report by 20 Indian, southeast Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people. Read more: GM crops have not lived up to their promises, say...

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By ADAM LIPTAK – The New York Times – October 30, 2011 WASHINGTON — Anthony Cooper shot a woman in Detroit in 2003 and then received laughably bad legal advice. Because all four of his bullets ... Read the original here: Supreme Court to Weigh Effects of Bad Plea Advice

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BY MARK MOREY – YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC – October 29, 2011 YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima may have to double, triple or quadruple the money it spends on lawyers for poor defendants under a new legal standard being ... See the original post here: Washington State Supreme Court rule would limit public defender caseloads, require more staff for city

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The Grand Canyon needs a new permanent protection to safeguard it from the desecrations of uranium mining. See the original post: The Grand Canyon and Mining

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Associated Press – 10/29/2011 01:55:53 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco prosecutors have been ordered to turn over a memo about the police department’s DNA lab that has become the focus of a fight between ... Read the original: California – San Francisco DA loses appeal over police DNA lab memo

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In the New York village that is home to baseball’s Hall of Fame, ill will over hydraulic fracturing has pitted neighbor against neighbor. Continued here: In Village’s Fight Over Gas Drilling, Civility Is Fading

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By TERRY COLLINS and JULIE WATSON – Associated Press – Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland’s police chief on Friday defended officers involved in a clash with anti-Wall Street protesters, saying they used what ... More here: Oakland chief defends officers involved in clash

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 Note: You must log in to view this streaming self-study video program. brightcove.createExperiences(); How DSM-IV is Misused in SVP Diagnosis and a Preview of DSM-V Dr. Allen Frances, M.D., Former Chair, Duke University School of Medicine Originally presented on ... Follow this link: How DSM-IV is Misused in SVP Diagnosis and a Preview of DSM-V – California MCLE...