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...million Amount allocated by Congress for the creation of an indoor rain forest in Coralville, Iowa...
Like Madagascar's rain forests, the country's National Forest Seed Bank (SNGF) in Antananarivo looks to be losing the battle against human encroachment. Engulfed by the capital's urban sprawl, the SNGF's small, scruffy patch of land has row upon row of seedlings, some of them species facing extinction in the wild. They seem too delicate to make it through the furious tropical storms common in the island's November-to-April rainy season. But SNGF director Guy Rakotondranony insists they will survive - they have to. The seedlings are "our hope for the future," he says, "our ecological...
...million Amount allocated by the U.S. Congress for the creation of an indoor rain forest in Coralville, Iowa...
...chronic illness--find blogging especially helpful as an outlet and a way to connect to others who are facing the same problems. "You can find three other moms dealing with gestational diabetes and talk about specific fears and concerns," says Ananda Mitra, an associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University. "It can be incredibly validating and supportive...
...fallacy recurs, over and over again: that Harvard deserves donations because of the cost of administering programs like international need-blind financial aid, study abroad and its own forest. But Harvard does not offer financial aid and forests solely because it cares about its undergraduates; rather, it competes with peer institutions, defraying tuition and offering educational resources in order to lure the most talented students here. If Harvard cannot provide them with the educational experience they want at efficient cost to itself, that’s too bad for Harvard...