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A growing discontent with the model, in addition to greater awareness of ecological interactions, however, prompted Worm and his Dalhousie University colleague Ransom Myers to question the sustainability of the single-species approach.
He knew we were selling arms to Iran--itself flatly illegal and spectacularly in conflict with the administration's public pronouncements--but, he claimed, he had no idea the deal involved paying ransom for hostages.
The five hijackers, who seized a jet Friday, are still demanding that India release 35 Kashmiri militants, but they are no longer asking for the return of a colleague's dead body or for $200 million in ransom.
On the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy phoned the Boulder police in a panic about a ransom note she says she found on a staircase leading to the kitchen.
All the rest--the strangling, sexual abuse, the ransom note--is cover-up."