Women end children's rights meeting WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Holding hands and swaying to "We Are the World," queens and first ladies from around the globe closed a two-day conference Tuesday on children's' rights. The conference, held 10 years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, urged political leaders and activists to "implement and respect" the U.N. convention, which has been adopted by 191 nations. "Every child has the right to be free from hunger, from the devastating consequences of natural disasters and of armed conflicts that are still the lot of millions of children," said a statement approved by the participants. The conference, in Warsaw, was attended by the queens of Belgium, Jordan, Spain and Sweden and presidential wives from 12 countries. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561375100-2a2> Beaver fight intensifies JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Armed with explosives, guns and cages, a mini-army of experts wages a day-in, day-out battle in Mississippi with an unlikely enemy - a brown fury creature. Last year alone beavers caused nearly $3 million in damages to timber, roads, bridges and crops in the state. Mississippians complain about armadillos, bats, fish-eating birds, deer, geese, snakes and skunks, but the beaver is by far the most troublesome, said Kevin Sullivan of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. State lawmakers were asked last week to put nearly $1 million into a beaver control program in which animal specialists respond to complaints from land owners and county officials. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561369463-4d9>
