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...were luckier than their predecessors when they approached the deans in the spring of 2007 to get approval for their new student organization. Previous proposals for a food society had been turned down because the deans assumed a lack of interest on campus.At the Freshman Activities Fair the following fall, the nascent organization was flooded with nearly 600 prospective members. “People were apparently just begging for something to fill this really huge niche,” Rinzler says.Barbara Haber, food historian and former Curator of Books at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, tried...
...route from Karachi, the same route used by those who smuggled explosives into the city before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. That intelligence was passed on from the foreign-intelligence bureau to the domestic-intelligence bureau and then, according to procedure, to the state police. But there was no follow-up with the local Mumbai police, who would have been the only ones to notice unusual activity in the days before the attacks. "Internal intelligence could have done better if they tried to work out the details on the ground," says M.K. Dhar, former joint director of India's intelligence bureau...
...green group Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) and the American nonprofit the Nature Conservancy (TNC), have fanned out across the Noel Kempff's 4.2 million acres (1.7 million ha), which range from Amazon rain forest to dry savanna. In the footsteps of howler monkeys and endangered black jaguars, they follow mapped plots in the forest, drive stakes into the ground and measure out circles with diameters of 13 ft. (4 m) to 46 ft. (14 m) - and then within that area they chart the diameter of every tree. But it's not the number of trees they want to discover...
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...SWITCH TO DEFENSE On follow-through, shield your face in case your opponent strikes back. "Don't admire your work," De La Hoya warns...