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...Where to find them: Outside the door of your party, Quincy courtyard, the shuttle. 2) Lanyardus Preparitus Previously known as Redfolderus Maximus, this species emerges from its summer cocoon with a brand new wardrobe and another impressive line on their resume. Routinely, care packages arrive from their native habitat, allowing them to continually replenish their stores of energy. Feeds on: Greenhouse Cafe, study break snacks, cookies from home. Where to find them: Entryway meetings, every Core class, info-sessions. 3) Fopasaurus Rex Upon one’s first encounter with this species, they may appear dirty and unhygienic, but this...
...What does the Carter Center do? And how is it related to Habitat for Humanity? Ruth Bennett, Sterling Heights, Mich. The Carter Center is completely separate. We put in 51 weeks a year on the center and one week on Habitat. The center is designed to meet the needs of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. We deal with neglected diseases. We mediate disputes. The thing that gets the most publicity is Habitat. Last year we built 100 homes in India in just four days because Brad Pitt showed up and we were inundated with unanticipated volunteers...
Traditionally, Castilla-León is Spain's breadbasket, its dry flatlands covered with wheat, barley and other grains that require little water. But in recent decades, farmers have begun switching to more profitable irrigated crops, unwittingly creating an alluring new habitat for the vole. "Since the late 1980s we have seen occasional cycles in which large numbers of voles, drawn by these new food sources, have appeared in the northern part of Castilla-León," says biologist Juan José Luque, a rodent specialist at the University of Valladolid. "What's extraordinary this year is that, instead...
...environment. As signs of global warming accumulate, therapists say they're seeing more and more patients with eco-anxious symptoms. Sufferers feel depression, hopelessness and insomnia, and go through sudden, uncontrollable bouts of sobbing. They're overwrought about where the polar bears will live if they lose their habitat. They fret about the Earth running out of fossil fuels and about the slow disappearance of the oceans' coral reefs. Sometimes, the worry is closer to home, about the loss of songbirds in the backyard or the fate of the squirrels after a neighborhood park was bulldozed for condominiums...
...Santa Fe, N.M., therapist Melissa Pickett says she hears a lot about polar bears and whales. "People tell me how an article about the polar bears losing their habitat was really upsetting to them," she says. Treatment includes placing a photograph of a polar bear into the patient's hands and encouraging him or her to have a conversation with the bear as a way to ease the patient's despair. Pickett might also suggest that patients do their own research into the polar bears' situation. The hope is that patients will begin to better understand their feelings. As they...