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...thing, the grand design of conservationism is to create reserves, protected areas like national parks where wildlife can live free from the impact of human populations. That strategy has been overwhelmingly successful, but conservationists now fear that global warming could make those reserves meaningless, if animals that are accustomed to a different climate can't survive in them. "We're used to focusing on protecting real estate," says Schweiger. "Now we have to be able to make sure animals can move to safe areas...
...combination," Petty said. "Unlike The New Yorker, where you have a certain style and standard, here the judging process is much more emotional. In some cases, the judges respond to the reality of the story; in other cases, they respond to really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants...
...audience member Diana G. Kimball ’09 said. “A minute isn’t a very good length of time for subtlety.” The most successful films were those that didn’t attempt to capture anything grand but instead focused on something quirky and interesting. But there were exceptions. Sharif Abdunnur’s film “Hot Summer in Beirut,” which dealt with the 2006 Lebanon War, garnered some of the loudest applause, demonstrating that it is possible to tackle larger issues within the limitations...
...days at Harvard, Coit recalls the “white faces with one or two hands, the kind of portraits I remember from Lowell dining room.” A comparable dearth of racial diversity still reigns among the portraits of the Harvard Faculty Room in University Hall, the grand meeting chamber of Harvard’s governing body...
...National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” a documentary coming out in the fall of 2009 on Roosevelt’s relationship with the United States National Park system. Burns, who spoke in Sanders Theatre last Friday, is known for making documentaries on a grand scale—grand in scope, length, and audience viewership. For example, his most famous documentary, “The Civil War,” deals with this crucial point in American history over the course of 11 hours and nine episodes, and has been seen by more than 40 million...