1. by: Betty -- 2006-11-14Timber TheftSome forests getting hard to see for the thieves In the movies, cattle rustlers always wore the black hats. Many a Saturday movie matinee featured a "low-down, no-account" band of thieves who dared to pull off a cattle heist. Hot on their trail, the local sheriff and his deputies--in white hats, naturally--would chase down the bad guys ....

2. Too many eyes on personal health data | ajc.com ( by Former congressman and U.S. Attorney Bob Barr) -- 2006-03-29The most endangered species on the planet? It's not the snail darter. Or the Calabasas County jumping field mouse. No; it's the privacy of your medical information. In one of the worst examples ever of the federal government creating a problem, purporting to solve the problem and then making it much worse, the Congress and the Bush administration h....

3. Endangered Whales Sighted off Texas Coast, Miles from Usual Winter Territory -- 1990-01-01A tanker pilot reported seeing the two Northern right whales off the coast of Texas, believed to be a mother and a calf, Monday after he thought he may have hit one of them. The whales have been listed as an endangered species since 1973, and the right whale population is thought to be at about 300. Right whales were depleted by commercial whaling,....