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...Tilson got an out-of-the-blue call from the SFA inviting him to Beijing. China planned to reintroduce South China tigers to the wild and wanted Tilson to be the lead scientific adviser. In 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the SFA and Tilson's South China Tiger Advisory Office based in Minnesota Zoo, and the long task of reintroducing tigers to the wild began. Tilson now gets red-carpet treatment in Beijing. "Somebody in China has said, 'This is a top-priority project,'" says Bart Nollen, the Dutch managing director of ICE, which is raising...
...killed someone, once. He was a young chap. He had been my lover, and he got AIDS...
...luge lover reared in a tiny ski resort in Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili seemed destined to slide in the Olympics. Sadly, he never got his chance. Kumaritashvili died on Feb. 12, at age 21, a few hours before the Olympic opening ceremonies. During a training run, Kumaritashvili's sled struck an inside wall on the final turn of the luge track, and he was catapulted into an unpadded steel support column. The accident cast an instant pall over the Olympics and called into question the track's design. In the week leading up to the Games, many luge athletes openly wondered...
...handful of journalists who got a look at WP7 before the official Feb. 15 unveiling by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And after spending some time with several core members of the Windows phone team, I walked away wondering if these vibrant people worked for the same company that gave us Vista. The team constantly referred to the WP7 project as a "gut check" because it was obvious that they had to do something different. And they...
...school - usually chicken strips and fries - and frequently had dinner at McDonald's: a burger and more fries. She drank nondiet soda and snacked on potato chips and Little Debbie cakes. She never exercised because, between school and extracurricular activities, she claimed she didn't have time. "It got to where I didn't like sports anymore," Fedorchalk says. "I'd get out of breath and get upset because mentally I wanted to do so much, but physically I couldn't." She gained 45 lb. in 2009 alone. (See 10 dieting myths debunked...