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  • Gang Accused of Conspiring to Kill Blacks (Latinos vs Blacks)

    07/05/2006 6:07:02 AM PDT · by tlb · 21 replies · 1,447+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | July 4, 2006 | John Spano, Times Staff Writer
    Federal prosecutors, who launched their case last week, contend that the Avenues gang between 1994 and 2000 conspired to kill African Americans on their turf. Men, women and children were harassed, terrorized, assaulted and slain as gang members sought to force black residents out of Latino neighborhoods, prosecutors said. Authorities are using a federal hate-crime law based on the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that outlawed slavery, and another law created in the civil rights era, to go after four gang members. Barbara Bernstein, deputy chief of the criminal section of the civil rights divisions of the U.S. Department of...
  • Deer Decreasing Forest Bird Population

    11/01/2005 12:39:02 PM PST · by GreenFreeper · 52 replies · 1,094+ views
    Scientific American ^ | October 31, 2005 | Tracy Staedter
    Large populations of deer are edging out forest birds in North America, report scientists in this month's issue of the journal Biological Conservation. The study is the first to evaluate the impact deer grazing can have on nest quality and food resources in areas unaffected by human activities such as forestry or hunting. It also offers general rules for predicting the influence these animals could have on bird ecosystems in the future. The decline of forest birds has been blamed mostly on such factors as disease, loss of habitat and an increase in the number of animals that prey on...