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Bolivia's President Evo Morales delivered a keynote address to the United Nations forum on Indigenous People in which he proclaimed "if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system and the unbridled prosperity that is killing the planet." In its place, Morales urged people to “live our lives the way nature intended—solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.” The Bolivian president dismissed objections as “excessively human-centric.” “Humans have an over-inflated sense of their own importance,” Morales said. “They don’t realize that their lives and happiness are inconsequential in...

The president of the lead group opposed to Alaska's latest wolf-control plan exhibited typical behavior Friday when she engaged in a bit of extremism following a sound court ruling that allows the program to proceed. She said she hoped the state would not "rush out and annihilate the wolves." That, of course, is not the state's plan. About three to four dozen wolves in a small portion of the state near McGrath will be killed, with the aim of improving a moose population whose numbers have consistently remained too low for that community's subsistence needs. A few dozen wolves likely...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.Big Labor Pool, Recession Leave Many Stuck at Bottom They clean hotel rooms, pour coffee, care for babies and the elderly. They do the simple, sometimes unpleasant, often invisible work that keeps the triangle's economy going. The region may be known for its highly skilled, highly paid workers, but it is also increasingly shaped by the sales clerks, waiters, nursing aides and child-care workers who serve them. Over the next eight years, the fastest-growing occupations in the region will fall mostly in two categories: computer engineers and specialists, with average wages topping...