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Instead, Thorpe and her colleagues found that orangutans move irregularly, shifting from side to side, moving backward and forward, using all four limbs at once, even walking upright on branches - all to keep disturbance to a minimum. In a way, they climb like humans might, if we were transplanted to the Sumatran jungle. "They move a bit like Tarzan in the old movies, swinging from branch to branch - only, orangutans do it like they do everything else, much more slowly," says Thorpe, whose team obtained nearly 3,000 visual observations of orangutans in motion during a yearlong study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...many proposals the Obama Administration has put forward for redoing financial regulation, the simplest and most straightforward has got to be the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Maybe that explains why it's also the most controversial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Aid | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...committed to making sure that our city is not defined by that day. Today is the day to move forward," Healy said...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Release Tapes from Gates Arrest | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Like Harvard's other schools, the Medical School was forced to limit its faculty searches to "very selective ones [that] made sense going forward" in the past year, Tarbell said...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Yale Poaches Harvard Prof in Medical School Expansion | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Before long, however, population growth was taking a toll on the nation's food supply. In 1955 officials launched a campaign to promote birth control, only to have their efforts reversed in 1958 by the Great Leap Forward - Mao's disastrous attempt to rapidly convert China into a modern industrialized state. "A larger population means greater manpower," reasoned Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Communist Youth League, at a national conference of youth work representatives that April. "The force of 600 million liberated people is tens of thousands of times stronger than a nuclear explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's One-Child Policy | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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