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Editorial: Earthquake/Again, the poor suffer most
Once again the world is reminded that many of its poorest people live in areas most vulnerable to natural disasters. This time it is the poor of Pakistan and India, living in the area of Kashmir where the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates come together. The pressure of the plates grinding together suddenly released Sunday, producing the most powerful earthquake to hit the area in a century.
October 11, 2005

Editorial: Caviar ban/Good move to save sturgeon
With the Endangered Species Act under especially fierce assault in Congress, the U.S. ban on importing beluga caviar from the Caspian region is a welcome development for several reasons. First and foremost, it demonstrates the law's potential to avert extinction -- in this case, for aquatic equivalents of the goose unwisely slaughtered for its golden eggs. But the ban also answers allegations that ESA is applied carelessly, and it recalls a time when Americans viewed their environmental responsibilities more globally.
October 11, 2005

E.J. Dionne Jr.: Even a liberal has to admire Buckley's genius
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It is time that I confess to an illicit love. I am now, and have been almost all my life, an admirer of William F. Buckley Jr.
October 11, 2005

More ways you can help
Among the organizations collecting money to aid earthquake victims in Pakistan:
October 11, 2005

Neal Gabler: 'Good night and good luck'
AMAGANSETT, N.Y. -- Even now, 40 years after his death, Edward R. Murrow remains the gold standard of American journalism -- "the patron saint of my profession," as the radio host Bob Edwards called him in a biography last year.
October 11, 2005