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...largest zoos can't really afford to adopt that approach. The San Diego Zoo, for example, draws some 3 million visitors a year and like many big city zoos is a major contributor to the local economy. Zoo officials consider it part of their mission to inspire visitors to care about wildlife and the habitats that nurture it. "We're trying to engage people emotionally," says Andy Baker, senior vice president for animal programs at the Philadelphia Zoo, the nation's oldest. "It's much less about natural history and life cycle these days and more about empathy...
...Harvard’s system of ad hoc reviews has structurally put the president in a more important, in a more central role than in other universities,” he says. “I think that’s been a very, very important contributor to Harvard’s strength, because I don’t think there’s any substitute for conversation and questioning advocates of appointments rather than simply reading files. And so I hope very much that system will be preserved.”Presidents of other leading institutions...
...fact the British public noticed little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America’s embassy to its closest ally leaderless for a year. He was succeeded in 2004 by Robert Holmes Tuttle, owner of the Beverly Hills based Tuttle-Click Automotive Group, and contributor of $198,725 to GOP causes over the last presidential term. Like Oberwetter, neither Farish nor Tuttle had previous diplomatic experience...
...event in hopes that it would rejuvenate Record Hospital’s involvement in Boston music.“It seemed kind of an interesting way to bring back Record Hospital as a community thing that people knew about,” says Baron, who is currently a contributor to the music website, Pitchforkmedia.com.Thomas M. Bechtold ’05, who spent four years as a RH DJ and will serve as bouncer this year, remembers the first two events fondly. He recalls that they were fun and—more importantly—loud. “If you?...
...edible - I mean adorable" says one of a bunny. And they threaten to turn the violence on themselves. To judge by the comments alone, Cuteoverload.com is a factor in the demise of dozens of netizens. Heads explode at the mere exposure to lethal levels of cuddliness. Or, as one contributor wrote about his reaction to a school of ducklings following their mom: "I barfed a rainbow...