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...around. Primates are certainly crucial to the global food chain, but as Nadler says, it's hard to know what would happen to the larger environment if a few lemur species on Madagascar died off tomorrow - and it's a question that scientists have been working for decades to avoid having to answer. In the last 50 years, only a few primates have been lost to extinction, but some worry the worst is yet to come. "The great fear is that we've been holding back the tide," says Dr. Richard Wrangham, president of the International Primatological Society...
...distribute its resources at its own discretion. Ultimately, UC funding does not fall under the College’s jurisdiction. If the College administration wishes to dictate how the UC allocates its resources, they should have to do so through a vote of the FAS in order to avoid violating the 1982 UC charter. Issues of whether the Party Fund should exist notwithstanding, the College acted improperly in its refusal to respect UC privileges conferred by FAS. If the University wishes to maintain a constructive relationship with students, it should not renege previous commitments. Since a university is a private...
...Friday night, celebration of “the porcelain god” is something keg-tapping college students try hard to avoid. Not so at the Adams House Pool Theatre, where this weekend’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Urinetown” unabashedly paid homage to all things toilet-related...
...part, Washington wants to avoid being compelled to intervene between two friends. And, on Sunday, a U.S. diplomatic push led to the release of eight Turkish soldiers held captive by the PKK in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdish leaders said they had played a role in the release...
...leaders in northern Iraq, who nominally control the region from which the PKK is operating, to crack down on the guerrillas. A failure to do so could lead Turkey to send its own troops across the border in pursuit of the PKK, an outcome that the U.S. wants to avoid not only because Iraq is ostensibly America's ally as well but because the Iraqi Kurds are that war-torn nation's only economic success story. Any large-scale movement of Turkish troops into Iraq raises the chances of a clash not just with the PKK but with Iraqi Kurdish...