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...Local people have shed taboos about eating gorilla meat, so the bush-meat trade is on the rise. Mining and logging camps hire professional poachers to feed their workers and the refugees who have fled nearby conflict. Though gorillas still make up a tiny percentage of the trade, losses can be devastating, because the gorilla numbers are so low and their communities are so tightly knit. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...important that he discussed how some issues seem much more important on campus than they really are,” Derek J. Bekebrede ’13 said. “Sometimes issues such as conflict in the Middle East and ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ don’t receive as much interest as campus life issues even though they are ultimately much more important...
...draw the borders; the fate of settlers and of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes in Israel in 1948 and were barred from returning; security; and water rights. But the fate of the Holy City is easily the most emotive, and perhaps also the most intractable point of conflict. And the very process of trying to restart final-status talks has once again put Jerusalem at ground zero in the conflict. (See pictures of people protesting the new settlements in East Jerusalem...
...Israeli government now, there may never be another chance to share the city with a Palestinian state, according to prominent Jerusalem lawyer and peace activist Daniel Seidemann. "The window is closing fast," he says. "The Obama Administration hasn't blinked yet. If they do, they can pick another regional conflict to solve, because they are not going to solve this one." (See pictures of life in the West Bank settlements...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Monday, one of her best-received lines was her vow that "the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons." Israel and its advocates in Washington see Iran's nuclear program, rather than the conflict with the Palestinians, as the prime issue in the U.S.-Israel conversation. So Clinton talked up the Administration's efforts to halt Iran's uranium-enrichment program, citing "a growing international consensus on taking steps to pressure Iran's leaders to change course." Europe was on board, she said...