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...fatal effect on vultures was discovered in a 2004 study led by the Peregrine Fund, manufacturers like Pakistan's Star Labs and Brazil's Ouro Fino continue to push the drug in Africa, where vultures are likely to suffer the same fate as their Asian counterparts, says Chris Bowden of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. North America's turkey vultures don't seem as susceptible, however, reports a 2008 study in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The continent's growing number of 25 million turkey and black vultures don't yet show significant signs of decline...
...coaches were behind me the whole time. Coach Bobby Bowden and Coach Mickey Andrews, in particular, have worked with me from Day 1 to allow me to be the best I can. When I came for my recruiting visit [as the #1 ranked high-school prospect in the country] they looked me and my family in the eye and said, "We're going to help you be the best you can be-as a football player, but also as a scholar. We want you to do the best you can in the classroom as well." They've allowed...
Port Elizabeth, South Africa [Laughs.] Well, the problem is, when you call any kind of movement new, you've already doomed it to an early death. There is some of it now, and it usually comes out in books. Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down is an example of it and a very good one. I don't see it that much in magazines...
...dragged the bodies of two U.S. soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The soldiers had been killed in an intense street battle that was later immortalized in the book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. But soon after the firefight, U.S. troops were withdrawn from Somalia, and other places--Afghanistan, Iraq--became known as locations where young American soldiers risked their lives...
...working together during our vacations and our time together at Harvard to brainstorm and develop a vision and a strategy to impact young people around the world,” Sarina Pasricha said, referencing her work with her sister. Past Harvard women who received the award include Priscilla Bowden Potter ’61, who was the first woman accepted to The Crimson’s editorial staff, and Nancy A. Redd ’03, recognized in part for winning $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” taking in the largest...