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Beauty and the Beasts
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23 Jun 2003 |
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| Beauty and the Beasts India's tigers may be threatened by, of all things, rising demand for cosmetics. The growing market for talcum powder -- widely used in lipsticks, eye shadows, deodorants, and other such products -- is leading to the destruction of tiger habitat by illegal mining operations that sell talc to international cosmetics companies, including Revlon, Johnson & Joh ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, India, logging, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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