Polynesians first arrived in Hawaii about 1,500 years ago (Royte 1995), bringing with them pigs, chickens, dogs, and unintentionally, Pacific rats (Rattus exulans). ... The Polynesians cleared most of the lowland dry forests on the islands they inhabited, so any birds living in these areas either adapted and moved somewhere else or died off along with many plants and invertebrates that we will never know about (Wilcove 1999). ... Most did not form stable populations and died off, but some became naturalized. ... The introduced herbivores found themselves on an island filled with defense...

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This statement is very difficult to follow; almost no person believes this statement whole-heartedly. ... It gives way for someone to say, if a person is a vegetable, has no vital capabilities, this person's life is of no worth anymore. ... If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ... If we compare a severely defective human infant with a non-human animal, a dog or a pig, for example,...

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On the last day of the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I gave her blessing and five British vessels set sail for what is now known as Indonesia. ... When Akbar died in 1605, however, the court degenerated into a series of vicious successional struggles animated by an operating principle known as takht ya takhta (throne or coffin). Aurangzeb, whose 49-year rule began in 1658, applied special taxes to Hindus and reputedly demolished Hindu temples, sowing the seeds of the furious Hindu-Muslim animosities that would shadow British India till the end and that poison relations between India and Pakist...

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Perhaps most disturbing of all to the conservative right was the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis. ... Phillips and Viguerie founded the Conservative Caucus in 1974 and later helped start the Moral Majority with Weyrich and the Reverend Jerry Falwell. ... The Speech helped raise $8 million in small contributions for Goldwater and elevated Reagan into the national political spotlight. ... I would say it's impossible to operate without them. ... The sponsors would have had nothing to show. ...

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