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Michael J. Giordano '02 said he was particularly disappointed. Giordano said he had planned on taking both "Bible" and "Myth," in addition...
...string of luck for me," Giordano said. "[The cancellations have] thrown my whole schedule out of whack, and that's kind of annoying...
...come a long way since 1600, when Giordano Bruno, a defrocked priest from Naples, was burned at the stake for espousing, among other things, his belief that there might be other worlds and other life-forms beyond Earth. In our Star Trekking age, it's now almost heretical not to believe in extraterrestrial life--a belief that will surely be fortified by last week's announcement of the discovery of two Saturn-size planets around two distant stars...
Once local authorities started cooperating, Giordano's efforts paid off dramatically. Before she began monitoring the poachers, more than 5,000 supposedly protected birds--mostly honey buzzards, falcons, storks, orioles, kestrels and swallows--were slaughtered each year. Today the count averages less than 100 in Sicily, although more than 500 on the Calabrian side of the straits. On a recent tour of saltwater lakes on the outskirts of Messina, Giordano proudly pointed to the dozens of cormorants perched on wooden posts in the shallow water. "Twenty years ago," she says, "you would not have seen even one cormorant here. People...
Over the years, Giordano, now 35, turned her passion into a profession: she studied ornithology and earned a degree in natural sciences from the University of Messina in 1989. Today Giordano runs the World Wildlife Fund's Natural Saltwater Reserve in Paceco, Italy, and its Center for the Rehabilitation of Wild Animals in Messina. The center's aviary houses some two dozen falcons and buzzards in various stages of convalescence. The injured birds, who collectively consume more than 13 lbs. of meat each day, have a home for life, and those that recover are turned loose. "They...