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...climate change - offer the potential for game-changing new sources of revenue for conservation. Altogether, the IUCN assessment estimates that 5% of currently threatened mammals are showing signs of recovery. But that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the number of mammals whose populations are dwindling fast - and nearly 900 species lacked the necessary data to be classified as safe or threatened. "The reality is that the number of threatened mammals could be as high as 36%," noted Jan Schipper, the director of the Global Mammal Assessment for CI. If we don't act soon, our children...
...direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric, the need to talk directly to Tehran is fast becoming bipartisan conventional wisdom in the U.S. foreign policy establishment...
...called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants - and hence, victims - of the current financial crisis? That's what a scholar of the fast-growing brand of Pentecostal Christianity believes. While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise - that God will "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life - had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom. Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages...
...Dancing Choose,” lead vocalist Tunde Adebimpe raps, unfazed by the fast-paced, funky rhythm that lends this tune the futuristic vibe that makes itself heard on almost every song...
Stapleton, Meg •theory that Palin can't answer questions because her mind is so fast that she's already waiting for the next question is offered...