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...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...
...little bit of politics, social satire, and bawdy fun."For Chen and Polk, the creative process began with choosing the setting, and the characters and storyline followed."We sat down and thought of as many settings as we could and eventually settled on the idea of an enchanted forest," Chen says. "Then we came up with characters based on what would fit in an enchanted forest."Chen also says that character-creation isn't just about puns."You can either come up with a character by thinking of a funny pun for a name or you can think of something...
...hundred miles. Woods has a similar mountaintop meadow in which to carve his vision. At 4,000 ft., this nearly mile-high club will be built for walking, emphasizing the wellness mantra that Cliffs Communities founder Jim Anthony says defines the communities there. The properties border the Pisgah National Forest and other protected areas that promise a lifetime of trails and wilderness for the outdoorsy...
...confident leaders have succeeded in furthering any sort of lasting change. Rather than “imperiling” it, arrogance is one of the prerequisites for a successful revolution! As the Russians used to say during the days of Stalin, “When you cut down a forest, chips fly.” I personally would leave the forest alone, but, as I’m sure Mr. Usmani will learn, there is no way of talking the trees into falling. MARK A. ADOMANIS ’07 Philadelphia, PA October...
...wireless by the end of the year. Rwanda is also clean, thanks to a ban on plastic bags since 2005 and a mandatory national "tidy up" one afternoon each month, in which even government ministers clean the streets. Partly as a result, and partly because of careful rain-forest management and a mountain gorilla baby boom, Rwanda is also a growing eco-tourism destination. The government says the economy as a whole will grow 6.5% this year...