He also tells an older worker how to lengthen his health insurance into retirement, and strongly cautions a younger worker against cashing in his retirement account. Now workers drop by Woodworth's office on Main Street at all hours to collect their envelopes, which hold information about that severance package, and to ask about any additional assistance for which they might qualify. He tells most of them that they qualify for federal Trade Adjustment Assistance, meant to help workers...

Garth Bonney, brother of deceased miner Ray, also worked at Beaconsfield and talks of warning signs that are consistently ignored within the mining industry. A mines inspector made recommendations to Beaconsfield Gold about improvements at the site but they were never enforced and major problems remained, he says. He is united in grief and frustration with the families of four other miners who were killed in accidents at Tasmanian mines. An independent commission of inquiry is...

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On the programme Young found that 15 to 20 gorillas are sold every day as meat in markets, while roads for logging were providing easy access for commercial hunters to find the gorillas. About 100,000 western lowland gorillas remain in the wild and according to the programme between one and five million tonnes of bush meat are taken from the Congo Basin. The singer revealed that after a female gorilla at an orphanage in Cameroon took a shine to him, the other males reacted angrily. One...

Today, they field phone calls from bear rehabilitators in Turkey, South Korea and Pakistan seeking advice on how to help their own orphan and often endangered bears. The yearling black bear orphan stepped from an open cage onto a dusty truck bed, dropped softly to earth and disappeared into the timber. ATLANTA, Idaho -- Jabbed with tranquilizers, her ear pierced with a green ID tag, "Twister" finally traded her steel transport box for freedom after a bumpy 90-mile ride into central Idaho's...