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...hardly assured. A global assessment of the state of this entire class of vertebrates found that nearly one-third of the 5,743 known species are in serious trouble. Climate change may well be the culprit in most cases, either directly or indirectly. The home habitat of the golden toad (at right, bottom) in Costa Rica moved up the mountain until "home" disappeared entirely. More than two-thirds of the 110 species of colorful harlequin frogs in Central and South America, two shown above, have also disappeared. Scientists believe that what killed many of the harlequins and what threatens...
...candidates may change, but Israeli elections follow a golden rule. Nobody ever wins a majority in the 120-seat Knesset - which often makes for strange alliances, especially amongst the more hawkish, conservative Likud party, more dovish and liberal Labor party and a whole slew of other smaller factions. Judging from the polls, this will hold true in next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well...
...there’s a whole new set of qualifications.” But a capella fans shouldn’t be fooled by the Kroks’ new tricks. Music Director Thomas K. B. Wionzek ’08 says that the Kroks “observe the golden age of music.” Golden indeed; the Kroks showed off their musical roots at the end of the concert when over 200 voices harmonized on the Krokadiloes standard, “Loch Lomond,” a diddy from the 19th century. “I felt much...
...that the fruits of the sea are the city's soul food. Here you'll find sashimi in every street, oysters within any budget and fish and chips raised to crisp, succulent art. Our pick of Sydney's four fishiest experiences: TETSUYA'S: To many, chef Tetsuya Wakada's golden age was the time when he operated in an unmarked house in the suburb of Rozelle, and you had to knock on a graffiti-covered back door for admission. But the great man has proven that he can make the transition to a downtown operation without any loss of originality...
...SENTENCED. CHENG CHUI-PING, 57, a.k.a. Sister Ping, leader of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling ring who helped finance the 1993 voyage of the freighter Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York with 300 starving Chinese passengers aboard, 10 of whom died trying to swim to U.S. soil; to the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, for money laundering, conspiracy, and trafficking in ransom proceeds; in New York City. Cheng, who reportedly arranged the transport of thousands of illegal immigrants from her base in New York's Chinatown, claimed she was an innocent victim terrorized by Chinese gangs...