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...Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel and Act the Way We Do By Dr. Sharon Moalem 274 pages; Harper...
Your cover exclaims, "Vanishing Act: How Climate Change Is Causing a New Age of Extinction," but the article does not - and cannot - say that [April 13]. Climate change is mentioned only in passing, and the major causes of extinction are clearly shown to be deforestation and encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate...
...Your cover exclaims, "Vanishing Act: How Climate Change Is Causing a New Age of Extinction," but the article does not - and cannot - say that. Climate change is mentioned only in passing, and the major causes of extinction are clearly shown to be deforestation and encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate-change reference...
...cities, says that he has noticed a hopeful change among young people, even in the poorest villages and urban slums: they question why their lives are as they are. "In this generation they are expressing their views very openly," he says. "Maybe in the next generation they will act. But it will take time...
...United Nations publicly condemned the U.S. military's practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, likening the act of strapping a person down and forcing tubes up their noses and into their stomachs to torture. Earlier this year, military officials told the New York Times that nearly one-fifth of all Gitmo prisoners were being force-fed at any given time...