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...eastern gorilla. Each species has two subspecies. Nellemann says the most threatened of those is the eastern lowland gorilla, which lives mostly in eastern Congo's North and South Kivu regions. Those areas have seen some of the worst of the fighting between the Congolese army and various rebel groups in recent years, as well as mining for metals such as gold and coltan. In 2009, scientists found a previously unknown group of 750 eastern lowland gorillas, but their numbers are still down from about 17,000 in the mid 1990s to 5,000 today...
...Student Mental Health Liaisons—a group that coordinates with UHS and House wellness tutors to educate students about mental health resources—will likely discuss the Cornell suicides at its next meeting, said Lianna E. G. Karp ’10, one of its members. Additionally, the group may consider holding a Suicide Gatekeeper training event to teach students how to recognize signs of life-threatening depression in the coming weeks, Karp said...
Reminiscing about his undergraduate years, Douthat recalled an annual conference of conservatives at Harvard and Yale composed of “an ecclectic group of Reaganite Republicans, Catholics lamenting the end of the reign of the House of Stuart, and liberal anarchists...
...Aceh isn't the only Islamic society in Asia to cane transgressors. In February, three Malaysian women were subjected to several strokes each after being convicted of extramarital sex. But that sentence was meted out inside a Kuala Lumpur prison. If a proposal drafted last September by a group of Acehnese lawmakers had come to fruition, adulterers might have been stoned to death in public. Pristine beaches and alfresco executions? It's hardly a formula that's going to worry Phuket or Bali. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...
...President abandons his mix-and-match policy decisions and return to basics. "This is a real defeat for us, and it carries a message we have to retain: we must go back to the fundamentals," says Jean-François Copé, president of the UMP's parliamentary group. "Those are what got Nicolas Sarkozy elected in 2007." (Read "Nicolas Sarkozy: A Grand Entrance...