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While the museums will care for the physical specimens, Farrell and his graduate students will focus mainly on creating this encyclopedia, which Farrell said will be the first of its kind...
Farrell said he hopes the study will lead to field guides of insects, distribution maps for the national park systems and an online encyclopedia of the species of Hispaniola—an area in which Harvard excels, according to Farrell...
...said teaching his class on tropical insects last year helped to inspire his current plan to put together the encyclopedia...
...lavish estate of an English duke. The Extinction Club almost gets lost on the way as it veers from history to biology to autobiography. But in the end Twigger's numerous digressions are worth the trip--like his set piece on the 11,000-volume Yung Lo Ta Tien encyclopedia, which contained the totality of Chinese culture before it was burned in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. As every good traveler knows, some roads shouldn't be missed just because they don't lead anywhere...
...shot dead this week in Baghdad. That's because in a 20-year career that began in 1974, Nidal's organization killed or wounded some 900 people in 20 different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred at airports and in restaurants, assassinated in their homes or blown apart in nightclubs and on airliners. Abu Nidal also made a habit of killing moderate Arab and Palestinian politicians, including a number of Yasser Arafat's top lieutenants...