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...response, the city started rounding up monkeys and caging them in a large, dedicated prison on the outskirts of Delhi. Authorities would like to send them to forests in neighboring states, but many of the states refuse to take the animals, complaining that they have their own monkey issues. Last week India's Supreme Court stepped in, ordering that 300 entrapped monkeys be transferred to a forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh...
...Activists also complain that in the process of rounding up monkeys, many are injured and babies get separated from mothers. "We have to tackle this another way," says Gautam Grover, the head of animal rights group Animal Saviour. "We took their land, we took their trees, we took their forests and now we just want to send them to another forest. We're playing God with this...
...town of Big Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when...
...begin with a protagonist whose girlfriend is “not at all like the other girls”—perhaps because she’s Canadian, or perhaps because she bites him and turns him into a werewolf. We end in an Edenic forest that allows the strange couple to live a blissfully nude life with fellow werewolves. In between, we’re treated to some freaky visuals, some funny ones, and not nearly enough nifty dancing from the ultracharismatic band...
...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...