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...study released last month by the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, the World Wildlife Fund and Washington's Smithsonian National Zoological Park reports that tigers now occupy an area 41% smaller than a decade ago. The report warns that, over the next 20 years, tigers are poised to "disappear in many places, or shrink to the point of 'ecological extinction...
...audacious $97 million heist of a cash storage depot. They were good enough to get into the warehouse (requiring military-style reconnaissance and intelligence), and good enough to get out with the loot (requiring serious logistical planning), but they failed when it came to Stage 3 - making the money disappear. In late June, long after the story had fallen off the front pages, four more people were arrested in relation to the case - one of them in Morocco - and another million pounds or so turned up. That brings [an error occurred while processing this directive] the total to 41 arrests...
...demand: global consumption of electricity is expected to double between 2002 and 2030. "World gas resources are not sufficient to meet the world's demand for energy. It can only be done with coal," insists Martin May, spokesman for Swedish power company Vattenfall. Not that coal ever exactly disappeared. During the cold months of last winter, both Germany and Britain relied heavily on coal to meet power requirements. And coal remains a key power source in many other countries, including Poland, Israel and Spain. But coal use is on the rise, thanks largely to a building spree of coal-fired...
Barring a change in Harvard policy, the University’s endowment holdings in Tatneft—a Russian oil company with alleged ties to the Sudanese government—will disappear from the public eye when the company delists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the coming weeks...
...Public health experts say that vaccines generally work best when everyone gets them: the laws of "herd immunity" dictate that the more people are protected against a particular virus, the more likely it is to eventually disappear altogether. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection; the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 20 million Americans carry it. By vaccinating children before they are sexually active, there is a hope of dramatically reducing the prevalence of at least some strains for the next generation...