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...Locals face a tough question at a time when the global recession and the collapse of the cattle-ranching market have hit residents hard: How can they continue their decadelong push to market the area as a wildlife destination while also accommodating the needs of the British army? Residents are trying to balance both demands. "The current level of training is high. It's never been this high," says Anthony King, executive director of the Laikipia Wildlife Forum, a conservation group. "Clearly, army training and other land uses [like wildlife tourism] may not always be compatible. There are definitely people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kenya, Can War Games Coexist with Wildlife? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...still-got-it!" record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, thereby earning a Ph.D. in jarring legends from complacency, grasped that making an album that didn't stop to think would solve R.E.M.'s two biggest problems: Stipe's tendency toward romantic drift and Buck's stunted, decadelong desire to plug in his guitar and blow people away. Dispensing with dirge-y ballads and long musical bridges to nowhere, Accelerate clocks in at a frenzied 35 min., with five of the 11 tracks zooming by in under-3-min., leave-the-room-and-you-missed-it blurs. It sounds less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R.E.M.: Finding Their Religion | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Because student perceptions of the CRR havebeen so uniformly negative-as the more than decadelong boycott would attest-the convening of thatdisciplinary body became almost as newsworthy asthe actions it investigated...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Road to Judicial Board Marked by Compromise | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson had swept by the Brown "B" team, 14-4, a week ago, but this time it had to face the Bruin first string. The perennial Eastern Champions continued their decadelong domination of Brown, outstripped the Harvard squad...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Aquadudes 2nd at NEs | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Laos. One by one, the dominoes are falling. A French news agency revealed earlier this week that the left-wing Pathet Lao and the U.S.-supported Royal Lao government are winding up negotiations on a formal settlement of their decadelong struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: revolution | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

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