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...contains some other less than surprising facts - for instance, adult females swing conservatively when it comes to tree travel, while males and adolescents are the risk takers. But the ultimate point is that orangutans, as odd and ungainly as they look, are uniquely adapted to the jungle, to life among the trees - an existence that is being threatened by the continued logging of Southeast Asian jungles. "Orangutans can move in logged forest, but the energetic cost may be much greater, and food availability is likely to be lower, so populations become less healthy and less viable in the long term...
...Still, setting a national threshold may not make sense. Health-insurance costs, after all, vary widely depending on where you live. In regions where there is less competition among insurers or where health-care costs are relatively high (like much of the Northeast), insurance costs more. It's also more expensive to insure workers employed in high-risk fields like manufacturing. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...concessions go, Angel Stadium offers a usual fare. There’s Ruby’s Diner that has a retro 50s atmosphere and the club level holds the Knothole Club, a baseball-themed restau-bar serving among other things a California Roll plate (typical ballpark cuisine...
...Hafler joined the Harvard faculty in 1984 and led a team that identified the genes implicated in causing multiple sclerosis, which he said is likely his "most important and long-lasting" accomplishment. But Alpern said that what makes Hafler exceptional among researchers world-wide are his leadership skills and ability to translate research work to the clinical domain...
...Every department needs leadership if the department is going to go from outstanding to more outstanding," said Stephen Waxman, Yale's current neurology chair, who also praised Hafler's work in organizing international research consortia. "Among people who are really good scientists, very few have the innate ability to build programs and collaborations and cooperative efforts, and he has that ability...