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Every two years, an excited crowd of the world's foremost primatologists emerge from distant jungles and lonely labs, and gather together to powwow about the state of their charges. Unfortunately, the news is not always good. Last month, the results of this biennial conversation were published in the 2006-2008 Primates in Peril report, the fourth of its kind, a compilation of the planet's 25 most endangered primate species. "If you took the remaining individuals of these species and gave them a ticket to a football stadium, they would not fill it," says Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation...
...conflict between books and new technology, Verba says, “Of course more people come [to the library] because they find more books, so in a sense they’re not rivals.”Weinberger envisions a different future, albeit perhaps a more distant one. “There will be a time when we will get the hardware and software right to pretty much replace paper,” he says. While he doesn’t discount the merit of the traditional book format, he expounds on the opportunities digitized reading could provide...
...Microsoft has not had a lot of success with their online plays," notes Shahid Khan, a business strategy consultant at IBB Consulting in Princeton, N.J. Their search engine, Windows Live, is a distant third to Google and Yahoo, in both ad revenue and users. They've lost out to Google on key strategic deals to buy both YouTube and online ad company DoubleClick. And while sales of the new operating system, Windows Vista, have been brisk, reviews have been decidedly mixed...
...America’s oldest musical organizations, other groups ranging from the Harvard Glee Club to the Boston Symphony Orchestra can trace their roots back to the Sodality.The road to tomorrow’s performance has been a rocky one, both in the institution’s recent and distant past. But its members and leaders remain optimistic that the bicentennial concert will signal a bright future for an organization that has played on since the days when Napoleon walked the earth.‘SERENADE THEIR DAUGHTERS’Though it’s considered venerable nowadays, the organization...
...moments of deeper meaning or true hilarity, “The Mineola Twins” largely hits period stereotypes. In its comedic moments, the show evokes chuckles rather than real laughs from Myra’s idolization of Beat poetry or Myrna’s inability to distinguish between distant figures in the newspapers, like Arthur Miller or Stalin...