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...deeply embarrassed," says George Schaller, a renowned biologist who has called attention to the plight of the chirus. "It's not a shawl; it's a shroud." Shame might not stop the trade, but this will: at the current rate of poaching, the species is likely to be extinct within 20 years...
...more scientists dig, the more hominid species they find. Most are distant cousins that went extinct without progeny; others are our direct ancestors...
...last week's couture shows in Paris. John Galliano's models, left, sported hats adorned with dead foxes and pheasants--demonstrating how Dior customers can simultaneously snare a meal and a fashion statement. Alexander McQueen at Givenchy suggested that not only supermodels but also the human race may be extinct next century, exhibiting his clothes on fiber-glass mannequins that briefly popped up from the floorboards. And Paco Rabanne illustrated his prediction that the Mir space station will kill thousands when it crash-lands in Paris in August by showing a metallic satellite dress, center. For Rabanne...
Last week huge purplish black jellyfish, Chrysaora achlyos, not spotted since 1989, appeared near San Diego. Rarer still, Javan rhinoceroses were photographed this spring. They have been feared extinct since shortly after the Vietnam War. And in 1997 and '98, at least two coelacanths, rare fish, were caught by Indonesian fishermen. Prior to 1938, the fish was believed to have been extinct for more than 25 million years...
Like small businesses in Harvard Square, affordable housing in Cambridge may be in danger of becoming extinct. In the wake of the elimination of rent control, more and more owners--by paying off federally-subsidized mortgages contingent on allocating low-cost housing units--are raising the rent to virtually force out low- and moderate-income tenants. Those who reside in such units in 929 House on Mass. Ave. might soon be the next victims of this troubling trend. A Connecticut-based company recently announced its plans to buy the property and gradually phase out the building's 57 low-cost...