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Many new students - whose first political act was to protest against the war in Iraq - are consumed by anti-Americanism, he says, and refuse to distinguish between the American people and the U.S. government. Suspicion also clouds the thinking of some university administrators. When Gunlög Fur, a professor of history at Sweden's Växjö University, tried to set up an American-studies program, the board of governors turned her down. "I got some fairly confrontational questions," she recalls. "They asked, 'Is this program meant to promote the United States...
...were about to quit for the afternoon on our tour through the Antasibe-Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar when the guide caught a flash of brown fur through the trees. He signaled to our traveling party silently, and we crept off the narrow path and through the thick tropical forest, hoping for a closer look. Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist, made the call. Tucked inside a hollow tree trunk were two greater bamboo lemurs, each the length of a forearm, staring back at us with orange eyes. We grabbed our cameras...
...song still sets the stage well for the album, as Trapper tries to remain catchy while exploring serious issues.In the third song, from which the album takes its name, singer-songwriter Eric Earley paints an intriguing picture of what it would be like to have his skin turn to fur and then to join a pack of wolves, only to return to society after years in the wilderness.As with many of their songs, “Furr” seems to have deeper implications than the lyrics superficially imply. Earley seems to be using the tale of the wolves...
...problems, training or local dog-friendly parks. Some have even enlisted their caretakers to arrange offline play dates. "Animals are natural social-networking beasts," says Noah Paessel, CEO of SNIF Labs, a tech firm started by a group of MIT Media Lab graduate students to study "social networking in fur...
...clear, unequivocal and a great relief to restless Republicans who had endured a week of indigestion on the issue. Murmurs that McCain was flirting with a pro-choice running mate like former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman had Rush Limbaugh and his army in full stampede. "The fur is going to fly on this one," Limbaugh warned about the prospect of McCain taking social conservatives for granted...