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Maureen E. Curran, the institute's attorney, confirmed that her clients' filed a motion to dismiss, but would not comment further...
Ries and Randall's attorney, Richard Oetheimer, declined to comment yesterday on the Holyoke Street Trust. The Institute of 1770's attorney, Maureen E. Curran also declined to comment on the lawsuit...
...Curran said she accepted service of the suit on Sept. 15 on behalf of her clients, and their response...
...reduce their ability to bounce back in many ways. Rain forests withstand some degree of cutting, for instance, but once forest fragments shrink beyond some unknown threshold, the entire system loses its ability to recover. page refers to a recent study led by the University of Michigan's Lisa Curran, who contends that human activities such as logging may have doomed Indonesia's great dipterocarp trees, the anchor of its rain forests...
...left over to sprout. The strategy, called masting, worked for millions of years. Now, however, the forests in Borneo have been so reduced that humans and animals can consume all the dipterocarp fruit, with the result that no new dipterocarp trees are taking root in the areas studied by Curran and her colleagues. Since a host of creatures ranging from the orangutan to the boar are dependent on the dipterocarps, the trees' disappearance may ultimately doom Indonesia's rain-forest ecosystem. PAGE scientist Nigel Sizer of the World Resources Institute notes that similar problems associated with fragmentation loom over...