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...sake of political expedience. We are also disappointed that leadership of the recognition of the Armenian genocide has largely been left to politicians by academics. Academia aspires to question all orthodoxies in the name of the truth; the Armenian genocide is one area in which it has fallen woefully short...
...park's emergency plan to continue tracking and monitoring the gorillas even with the rebel presence has fallen through. With thousands of rebels throughout the forest, the security situation has worsened into a "no-go zone," says Lucy Fauveau of the London Zoological Society. The Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature is currently attempting to collaborate with MONUC, the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in the Congo, to provide protection to the gorillas. The U.N. employs around 17,000 peacekeepers in the Congo - the largest force of its kind worldwide. In the meantime, conservationists say they will wait...
...could say the visionary geneticist had a clear genetic edge. Capecchi's grandmother was a painter, his uncle a renowned physicist, and his mother Lucy Ramberg an expat American poet living in a chalet in the Italian Alps when Mario was born in 1937. She had fallen in with a group of bohemian writers who believed, her son says with just a trace of bemusement, that "they could wipe out Fascism and Nazism with a pen." After the Gestapo came in 1941 to take her to Dachau, Mario landed on the streets. He was 4 years...
...Finally, it is much easier to see any individual climatic eruption as a discrete event rather than to see it as one of many dominoes that have fallen on the same board and start making connections...
That spirit was sufficient to diagnose climate change, but it won't be enough to solve it - and here's where Gore has fallen short in the past. The Jeremiah of global warming proved strangely restrained on the issue during the eight years he spent as Vice President of the U.S. - eight critical years when the groundwork for preventing climate change could have been laid. He still talked about the environment, but what matters is that he spent little in the way of political capital to actually do anything about it. During the 2000 election he even ran away from...