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...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 all but the largest remaining forests on Earth...
...Global Green Deal must not be solely an American project, however. China and India, with their gigantic populations and ambitious development plans, could by themselves doom everyone else to severe global warming. Already, China is the world's second largest producer of greenhouse gases (after the U.S.). But China would use 50% less coal if it simply installed today's energy-efficient technologies. Under the Global Green Deal, Europe, America and Japan would help China buy these technologies, not only because that would reduce global warming but also because it would create jobs and profits for workers and companies back...
...Dying Gaul, however, is about Robert. Though Arnold turns in a valiant effort, he is nevertheless unable to salvage Robert from the doom of being by far the most boring character of the three. He reads Nietzsche, spouts a lot of Eastern philosophy and spends most of his time pining over his dead lover and contemplating suicide. He's the annoying parts of Hamlet without the really cool sword fight at the end. Fortunately, he seems to find himself by the second act; as he tries to come to terms with his loss, Robert discovers disturbing facets of his personality...
...unfortunate that last Monday, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) passed their budget without any mention of an extra $450,000 that top officials said it needed to open the school promptly and successfully. This decision by the Cambridge School Committee is short-sighted and could doom the school's reform efforts to failure...
...schway) a nutty fad, but this Eastern art of furniture placement has been facilitating living room energy flow for over 4,000 years. Here, FM plays Master of Decor and points out feng shui do's and don'ts, stopping two Harvard venues from becoming xiong zai (houses of doom...