Word: cutefulness
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...lovable lemur could be for Madagascar what the panda - the original adaptively cute animal - is for China, a charismatic minor species, a symbol of the nation and conservation. Having a species recognized by the world can motivate locals also to support conservation. "It's good for people to know that they have a species around them that the world cares about," says Mittermeier. Already lemurs are attracting growing numbers of tourists to Madagascar, as evidenced by the full camping grounds at the lodge where our group stayed in the Ankarafantsika Park, where sifakas all but drop in on the breakfast...
...hard to pinpoint exactly why these animals are so darn cute; maybe it's their small size relative to their fellow primates. Maybe it's their flirty, innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...
...Software, the creators of the world-famous “The Sims.” But don’t expect to see picture perfect families in this new video game—“Spore” is all about creating your very own species, from the cute and cuddly to the downright bizarre...
...have all been saying, 'Let 'em suffer.' " Personally, he says, "there's a side of me that agrees with the populist feeling that this is something that Wall Street created with their exotic financial instruments, and if it was a businessman here in Willoughby who tried to do something cute and it blew up in his or her face, they would be stuck with a bankrupt company. On the other hand, we have companies here, Steris, Lincoln Electric, Lubrizol - just the three of them employ 2,400 people. When will this mess trickle down and affect those companies, and start...
...think McCain suspended his campaign for the good of the bailout, or do you think it was a political stunt? It is the sort of thing that does look too cute by half. Too cute by half is not really what a great nation needs in a crisis. I have an extremely liberal view of politics in that I expect a lot of mischief, but we've gotta bring our best selves and our most adult selves to this thing. We're a nation of people who turn 45 and want to dress like children. We're a nation...