Flood Control Could Damage Endangered Species Protection	Using the recent floods as an excuse, property-rights advocates are quietly pushing for quick passage of a bill that would gut protection of endangered species
Bear Lincoln Murder Trial Begins	by Nicholas Wilson Jury questioning began May 5, as judge imposes total gag order on case; Lincoln letter to the editor; with few Native American candidates available for jury duty, attorney and tribal judge explains why Native people have reason to distrust white justice
New Ozone Hole Over Chile, Argentina	by Gustavo Gonzalez Concern because holes usually appear in autumn
Worsened Conditions For Latin Women	by Estrella Gutierrez Aspects of economy in Mexico and Central America harken back to the days of slave labor
Restore Wetlands to Stop Big Floods, Researcher Says	by Melissa Mitchell Economics and politics have historically interfered with common-sense solution
Looking For Missing Gold of Nazi Victims? Try the U.S. Treasury	by David Hare A handful of survivors have come forward to tell a story of a quarry in Buchenwald where loot was stashed, raising still more questions about the missing Nazi gold
Mexican "War on Drugs" Efforts a Sham, Insiders Say	by Diego Cevallos Current efforts to reform Mexican drug interdiction programs are window dressing for Clinton visit, and mean little in a county where organized crime spends more than $800 million in bribes to Mexican authorities each year
Asian Loggers Targeting Amazon Rain Forest	by Bert Wilkinson With about 30 percent of Guyana, farmed out to timber companies, loggers are lining up to attack the rain forest
Dams Increasingly Considered Harmful, Dangerous	by Pratap Chatterjee 32 percent of the dams in the United States have a "high" or "significant" potential for problems
U.S. Immigration Abuses Rights of Women and Children, Groups Charge	Children and women under INS detention are generally given inadequate information about their legal rights and frequently cannot obtain information in a language they understand, while new law permits the INS, for the first time, to immediately deport anyone entering the United States with inadequate documentation
"Happy Meal" Toys Made by Sad Sweatshop Workers	by Farhan Haq Labor monitoring groups say that the health and rights of hundreds of young Vietnamese women who make toys distributed by McDonald's have been severely violated
"No Sweat" Pledges Not the Answer to Sweatshop Abuse	by Yvette Collymore Corporate codes of conduct won't end the exploitation of child workers
Worldwide Gold Rush Causing Long-Term Enviro Damage	by Robert Bryce Gold fever is sweeping the globe in an unprecedented surge in exploration and production, but environmental damage may be irreparable
Journalists Decry Advertisers Demand to Censor Magazines	After Esquire magazine killed a short story in fear of offending Chysler, SPJ President said it's increasingly distressing that otherwise responsible journalists are allowing advertisers, using financial pressure, to determine editorial content