Naturalists

think that may explain why corn bunting numbers are down
by 41% since 1994, grey partridge by 18% and yellowhammer by 13%.
Autumn-seeded crops also grow all too quickly for field nesters such as
skylarks (down 14%).
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9. The poison pill is one of the most egregious creatures of American
corporate law. It exists to stop shareholders enjoying their full ownership
right by threatening, if triggered, to dilute the value of those shares in
certain circumstances by a firm’s board. They first caught on in the
1980s, when boards used them to deter hostile takeover bids—hostile
atleast, to the board, though not necessarily to shareholders.
How strange, then, to find a poison pill being used (seemingly) in a good
cause, against somebody who has (apparently) given many shareholders
a lousy deal. This is the latest twist in the remarkable affair involving
Hollinger International, a newspaper group, and its long time controlling
owner, Conrad Black. This week, Hollinger International board launched
a campaign, including the creation of a poison pill, to stop Lord Black
selling control of the firm to wealthy Barclay brothers.
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10. A new computer virus, the fastest spreading ever, was this week making
the rounds among unprotected computers running on Microsoft
Windows. Such incidents of online vandalism by what are often
presumed to be geeky teenage hackers are, sadly, routine. But this virus,
called MyDoom by some and Novarg by others, seems to be of a
different nature—conpriratorial and political. That is because its main
feature, besides humiliating Microsoft, is to turn infected machines into
weapons against a controversial company called SCO.