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...light morning mist hangs over the jungle as Peter Taggart sets a hornbill on a tree branch. Taggart runs an antipoaching station in the Cardamom Mountains in southwest Cambodia, and the hornbill, a black bird with a white breast and an oversize yellow beak, has been confiscated from a local villager. "The guy was keeping it as a pet," says Taggart, who works for Washington-based Conservation International. "He said he didn't know it was protected, but they all know, really...
...officer was sent to Hollis Hall after receiving a report that a fallen branch was blocking the walkway. The officer notified Facilities Maintenance Operations, which cleaned up the tree limb...
Since the spring, the AIDS activist group ACT UP has called for Coke, which is the largest employer in Africa, to extend coverage of HIV and AIDS treatments to its African employees. In April, ACT UP’s New York branch held a demonstration outside a Coke shareholders meeting, and since then other activist groups, including SGAC, have teamed up with ACT UP to pressure Coke...
Saturday’s rally included speeches by John Bell, an activist from ACT UP’s Philadelphia branch; Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University; Sharonann Lynch, of the Health Global Access Project; and Steven L. Porter, a Princeton University student studying at the Harvard Summer School this summer...
...Russians would have it—and it was a lonely, remote place. Nestled delicately somewhere between Siberia and the middle of nowhere, it is a desolate border town astride the Russian-Mongolian frontier and is the main point of crossing for all trains travelling on this particular branch of the sprawling Trans-Siberian network. It is the first, or last (or, in my case, both) place land travelers encounter when passing to or through Mongolia...