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Every two years, an excited crowd of the world's foremost primatologists emerge from distant jungles and lonely labs, and gather together to powwow about the state of their charges. Unfortunately, the news is not always good. Last month, the results of this biennial conversation were published in the 2006-2008 Primates in Peril report, the fourth of its kind, a compilation of the planet's 25 most endangered primate species. "If you took the remaining individuals of these species and gave them a ticket to a football stadium, they would not fill it," says Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation...
...Night Kitchens” functions as more than just a palate cleanser after the three stomach-turning essays that preceded it. Thurman describes not only the surprisingly complex process of tofu-making, but also the people who have chosen to make tofu their livelihood and even their art. Foremost among these personalities is Kawashima, who is known for his zaru dofu, “a melting, ethereal confection with a mousselike consistency which is eaten with a spoon.” Just as Kawashima turns the notoriously insipid food into a delicacy, Thurman reveals that the culture of tofu-making...
...fairly evenly matched, and in the championship meet environment, anything could happen.But Cummins has a concrete goal in mind for her team. “We’re hoping to come back and beat Yale again this weekend,” she said. “First and foremost, we want to improve on our recent performances at Heps,” Saretsky added. With the momentum generated by Harvard’s rookies, that shouldn’t be hard to do. “We push each other to do well,” Richardson said...
...Oppression of Women in Islam’” and “sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments and campus Women’s Centers.” This is completely ill-informed: Feminist scholars have been among the foremost analysts and critics of women’s systematic mistreatment in all Judeo-Christian societies, including Islamic ones. Moreover, feminist academics—especially in the last 30 years—have been explicitly dedicated to self-criticism, acknowledging their own biases and situated knowledge, as well as the complexity of even speaking about...
...found the Radcliffe Institute to be, first and foremost, a warm, nourishing setting of independent research, pursued by scholars from every discipline,” Schuleit wrote in an e-mail. “As a visual artist, I experienced a year of truly interdisciplinary work, inspired by my exposure to the other fellows’s work and works in progress...