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Half of this grant has been provided by the Chinese government, whose high-level interest in the project is easy to understand. Panthera tigris amoyensis is the progenitor of all modern tigers and the only subspecies unique to China. "You have a culture that reveres the tiger," says Tilson. "It...
He called for teachers to be “healers” in the classroom. Instead of “punching kids out” when they misbehave, educators should instead focus on providing a nurturing environment for students who live in the midst of gunfire, Duncan said.
It has not just been the lure of the forests and the forests’ products that have been the bane of the adivasis. It is also the fact that most of the tribal areas of India are mineral-rich. It is the “rich land of the...
The government has clear goals. It wants the denizens of its Silicon Valley to hatch lucrative inventions that will help break the economy's dependence on the sale of oil and gas. "The appearance of great ideas, like life itself, is still considered a miracle," said the Kremlin's chief...
This points again to the old habits - the nationalism, the overbearing management - that the Kremlin is dragging into its modernization drive. Masha Lipman, a political expert at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow, says Russia will never succeed unless those habits are left in the past. "A modern, competitive economy can...