Word: eventer
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...planet is in the middle of an extinction crisis, the sixth great wave in its history. But unlike major extinction events of the past - like the Permian-Triassic event 250 million years ago, in which 70% of all terrestrial species were wiped out, probably because of an asteroid impact or a similar natural disaster - this time human beings are the cause. Hard numbers are difficult to find, but many scientists believe Earth's species are going extinct at a rate that is up to 1,000 times higher than before human beings came on the scene. (See how animals...
Brazil will get a valuable practice run when it hosts the soccer World Cup in 2014; construction of venues for that event has yet to begin. Brazilians have long had to endure the joke that theirs was the country of the future and always would be. With that future just seven years away, they now have to prove they'll be ready...
...Martha “Martabel” Wasserman ’10, who is a VES and Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, will be creating an exhibition catalogue as her senior thesis. “I think it’s really important to be able to show this event and story outside the Harvard community or people who are coming to the show,” Wasserman says...
Following the event, Grant N. Wonders ’12 said he was pleased with Volcker’s ability to respond to a wide array of questions...
...Spain as the "national fiesta." In 2003, the region passed a sweeping animal-protection law that, among its many measures, restricted towns without bullrings from building them and prohibited all children under age 14 from attending a corrida by placing the equivalent of an R movie rating on the event. The following year, Barcelona's municipal government declared the Catalan capital an "anti-bullfighting city" in a nonbinding resolution; 70 other Catalan towns and cities have since followed suit. (Read "Spanish TV Says No to Bullfighting...