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...turns out that animal epidemiologists had based all their Ebola assumptions on mountain gorillas - the kind studied by Dian Fossey - and not on Western gorillas, which were actually dying. The mountain variety subsists mostly on leaves, which are available all over the forest. Western gorillas, by contrast, live mostly on fruit, a scarcer resource that draws different groups of gorillas and chimpanzees to the same trees at different times of day. "They defecate and urinate in and around the trees," says Walsh, leaving infected body fluids to sicken the next group. Gorillas also examine the bodies of dead apes they...
...Powhatan gradually became confined to their homeland, their attitude toward land began to work against them. Traditionally farmland was "owned" only while it was being worked. Otherwise, like the forest and waterways, it was "public" land, on which any family could forage. In their world, with its relatively small populations, there was always more land to move to. That ceased to be the case when enough aliens had settled in, aliens who insisted that they owned "their" land forever and that no one could trespass on it. It was not until late in the 17th century, when they had lost...
...turns out that animal epidemiologists had based all their Ebola assumptions on mountain gorillas--the kind studied by Dian Fossey--and not on Western gorillas, which were actually dying. The mountain variety subsists mostly on leaves, which are available all over the forest. Western gorillas, by contrast, live mostly on fruit, a scarcer resource that draws different groups of gorillas and chimpanzees to the same trees at different times of day. "They defecate and urinate in and around the trees," says Walsh, leaving infected body fluids to sicken the next group. Gorillas also examine the bodies of dead apes they...
...inextricably linked. Last summer, Shope discovered that Kimberly-Clark, the company that supplied the majority of Harvard’s toilet paper, was not being environmentally friendly. “I found out that Kimberly-Clark source some of their materials from the boreal forest [in Canada],” Shope said. Shope approached Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) with a proposal to switch all the toilet paper on campus to 100 percent recycled products. FMO agreed to start with a pilot program at Eliot House using EcoSoft toilet paper. When no major opposition arose to the new brand...
...Stacy La Forest, FORT CAMPBELL...