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...threats to wildlife on the African island of Madagascar are manifold: rampant deforestation that has stripped most of the island of its original forest cover, leaving a wasteland; a human population that is growing at 3% a year, straining natural resources and hunting animals for food, especially Madagascar's emblematic lemurs; extractive industry, including a nickel mine not far from a national park that could become the world's biggest...
...panel came to a close, a professor from the African Languages department reminded the audience that it wasn’t too late to add a Southern Sudanese language to their study cards...
...board game “Guess Who?” The players were presented with a set of pictures and asked questions to determine the randomly-chosen picture of the other player. “In our version, half of the participants were white and half were African Americans,” Norton added. “The question we faced was whether a person would use race in their description as they would gender or height.” “We found that young kids were willing to ask about race, but the 10 and 11 year...
...position that reflects their lower income status. Nearly 20% of American Pentecostals are Latino, and they make up a rapidly growing constituency in the U.S. that supported George W. Bush in 2004 but is shifting over in greater numbers behind Barack Obama this year. In addition, a handful of African-American Pentecostals hold high positions within the Democratic Party, including Joshua Dubois, Obama's religious outreach director, and Leah Daughtry, chief of staff at the Democratic National Committee...
...Faina is let go, the only chance of learning what really happened may be in Ukraine. After enduring severe criticism for arming all sides in various African conflicts with Soviet-era weapons from its stockpiles, Ukraine, experts say, is cleaning up its act and taking a far greater interest in the ultimate destination of its weapons. "The Ukrainians are keen on parliamentary commissions on illegal arms transfers at the moment," says Paul Holtom, a researcher with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Project. "One would hope the Ukrainians would follow...