On the Cover: Eleventh-hour Shuffle
As its last 100 days get marked off the calendar, the Bush administration seems determined as ever to leave a deeply etched trail of environmental destruction in its wake—and to bestow bad policy parting gifts on its big-industry allies. Regardless of who takes the helm in 2009, the damage won't be easily undone. Among the last-minute attacks: a pair of strikes against the Endangered Species Act.