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...world, but Asia takes the lead this year with 11 endangered species, including the Sumatran orangutan, Siau Island tarsier and Hainan black-crested gibbon. Africa's seven endangered primates include the Cross River gorilla and Miss Waldron's red colobus, which scientists have not spotted since 1993 and fear may already be extinct. Madagascar follows with four endangered species, while South America has three. From Colombia to Southern China, primates are not faring well, and primatologists say their precarious existence is a problem for all of us. Even if we have never set eyes on a Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly...
...lemur species on Madagascar died off tomorrow - and it's a question that scientists have been working for decades to avoid having to answer. In the last 50 years, only a few primates have been lost to extinction, but some worry the worst is yet to come. "The great fear is that we've been holding back the tide," says Dr. Richard Wrangham, president of the International Primatological Society, one of the report's sponsors. Wrangham says that within the next 20 years, several of the species on the list could be gone...
...protection money. Analysts speculated that the Mungiki were also flexing their muscles ahead of elections due next month. Brutal police crackdowns began in June after officers were shot dead in a slum as they investigated Mungiki violence. Young men shaved off their dreadlocks or fled the city for fear of being caught up in the arrests...
...first place. In an ironic boomerang, it is now those officers, ascending to ever more senior ranks, who soon could be overseeing various elements of the Pakistani military, including the security of the several dozen atomic weapons Pakistan is believed to have in its arsenal. Their provincialism, U.S. officials fear, could make them sympathetic to the al-Qaeda and Taliban elements now roiling the country...
...current UC representatives, both of whom requested anonymity for fear of compromising their relationships with the potential candidates, confirmed last week that Sarafa and Sundquist had met to discuss the upcoming elections, and that there were no other UC insiders likely to run for the top office this year...