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...Tilson got an out-of-the-blue call from the SFA inviting him to Beijing. China planned to reintroduce South China tigers to the wild and wanted Tilson to be the lead scientific adviser. In 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the SFA and Tilson's South China Tiger Advisory Office based in Minnesota Zoo, and the long task of reintroducing tigers to the wild began. Tilson now gets red-carpet treatment in Beijing. "Somebody in China has said, 'This is a top-priority project,'" says Bart Nollen, the Dutch managing director of ICE, which is raising...
...KIND OF BLUE...
...might have been the shot heard ’round the ECAC when junior Kate Buesser rifled the puck past the entire Princeton defense and goalie Rachel Weber from just past the blue line. But shortly into the second period, it was clear that the No. 4 Harvard women’s hockey team (20-6-5) had more than one gun in its arsenal as it fired its way to a 4-1 victory over the Tigers—and a sweep of the ECAC quarterfinals—Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center...
...that Obama's margin in the Senate is narrower, the White House can't afford to take offense. Besides, on gays in the military, Lieberman is true blue: he has opposed the 1993 ban since its inception and sees lifting it as part of the next act in his 50-year role in the civil rights movement. It is also a way to bring people on the outside in, something Lieberman knows more about now than ever before...
...done," military scholar Richard Betts wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007. Neither Presidents nor lawmakers want to be branded unpatriotic by trying to cut defense spending, a non sequitur if there ever was one. Many lawmakers cloak their advocacy for hometown weapons production in such red, white and blue bunting...