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...carbon sequestered in standing forests as a way to fight climate change - offer the potential for game-changing new sources of revenue for conservation. Altogether, the IUCN assessment estimates that 5% of currently threatened mammals are showing signs of recovery. But that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the number of mammals whose populations are dwindling fast - and nearly 900 species lacked the necessary data to be classified as safe or threatened. "The reality is that the number of threatened mammals could be as high as 36%," noted Jan Schipper, the director of the Global Mammal Assessment...
...Daisies' fairy-tale story is so unlike anything else on TV that it seems new even a year later. Unveiling one dazzling image after another (Chuck is a beekeeper, and when her colony fails, she pours a bucket of bees over Ned; they return to life in a shower of sparks), Daisies has a timeless, picture-book look. It could be set today, in the '30s, in the '70s or in any other decade fond of saturated color. Like Chuck herself, it's a perfect candidate for a second chance: as glowing and lovable as the day we first...
...swing through Pennsylvania last month, John McCain visited a Manheim Central High School football practice - not to ingratiate himself with the players, who weren't even old enough to vote, but to identify himself with the gritty, down-home, lunch-bucket values of small-town football. "This is a blue-collar town," Manheim's coach said in his introduction of McCain. "We don't have a lot of flashy athletes. We don't come out with a lot of flash." But the coach explained that his team works hard, plays with discipline and comes through...
...Stein the wine writer apparently finds it acceptable to use ?good? as the primary descriptor of wine. In his attempt at discussing terroir, he lost all credibility with serious wine enthusiasts. Perhaps he should drink out of the spit bucket more often, as it seems to be to his taste. Katherine Dozier, Washington...
...numbers of students have dropped out due to hunger and the inability of families to pay the fees, teachers - whose wages are rendered pitiful by runaway inflation - are also abandoning the school in order to work the illegal diamond mines in nearby Marange. At one market in Mutisinazita, a bucket of maize meal was last week selling for 20 trillion Zimbabwe dollars (about $13), four times the monthly salary of an average civil servant. "We are also hungry," says Chauke. "We need to be paid in foreign currency because every commodity is being imported." A senior nurse at the local...