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...grassroots, community focus that relies heavily on users flagging inappropriate ads. Although it is now a for-profit business with 25 employees (the dot-org suffix is pure nostalgia), the site's founder, Craig Newmark, still refers to it as a "public service" rather than a profit-driven venture...
...Russert's first exposure to politics was in the wards of Buffalo, but his great teachers were national figures - Senator Pat Moynihan and Governor Mario Cuomo. It's easy to understand why a man as driven as Tim, who might have easily made a name for himself in his twenties, spent so much of his early professional career in their service. Like Russert, they were from working-class Catholic families and combined an intellectual appreciation of Democratic policies with a visceral understanding of Democratic voters. Moynihan was an intellectual raised in Hell's Kitchen; Cuomo was a gritty minor league...
...face any time soon. Ranthambore is a rare success story in the country's attempts to save its national symbol from extinction. In February, a government-backed report found there were about 1,400 tigers left in the wild--a drop of more than 60% in five years, driven by poaching and human encroachment into tiger habitats. Conservationists are studying Ranthambore's success closely, hoping to replicate it elsewhere. The lessons learned here are vital not because they illuminate some secret key to saving the big cat but because they reinforce the idea that tiger preservation comes down to getting...
Deputy forest conservator Raghuvir Singh Shekhawat, who took over the reins at Ranthambore in November 2005, says the park was "in chaos" when he arrived. Driven by demand for pelts--a single tiger skin in India was then worth about $1,200, a sixth of the price today but still more than the average annual income--poachers had laid siege to the park. Meanwhile, the proximity of villages, whose residents collected firewood and grazed cattle in the reserve, drove away the cats' natural prey and cramped their love life (tigers seem to mate successfully only when they feel secure...
Endangered since 1967, the Caribbean monk seal is the first seal species to have been driven to extinction by humans, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Its fate portends a bleak future for other endangered monk-seal species...