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...Bear’s Place. $8. (KF)Friday, Nov. 25Buskin & Batteau and Family & Friends. One of folk music’s favorite acoustic duos brings you a family and friends Thanksgiving weekend reunion, including a rare solo acoustic appearance by Robin Lane, John Parker Compton and “Appaloosa,” David Batteau and “Batteaux,” “Rockabetty” with Yani Batteau and others. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $27/23. (KAF)Karacter CD Release Party. This night celebrates the CD release...
...latest Cassell's. It used to take years for such words to enter the lexicon, he adds, but "through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying to decode youthspeak. Brap (cool) and wix (wicked, as in good, but even cooler) these dictionaries may be, but they're already old school...
...enforcement is leading to a potentially catastrophic situation for the region's wildlife, activists say. "At the current rate there is a very good chance that we will lose a lot of species before we even know where they are or anything about them," says TRAFFIC's Compton...
...ceiling are visible. "We can send one or two containers out a week," Hendrawan says. Chances of interception on the way to buyers are small. In 2001, for example, China banned all direct imports of live freshwater turtles from Indonesia in an attempt to stem the flow, notes Compton of TRAFFIC. The main effect was to force dealers to find alternate air routes through second countries like Malaysia, he says, or increase their reliance on the porous land borders. "We pack a layer of legal turtles on top, then put thousands of illegals underneath," says the Bengkulu dealer. "And often...
...wildlife trade have caused hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage globally," the report notes, adding that because it is centered around a series of well-known hubs, containing the trade would not be particularly hard. There are some signs that the message is finally sinking in, says Compton of TRAFFIC. "There's more political will out there to do something about this issue than there ever has been before," he says, noting that the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed in May to a five-year plan to combat threats to the region...