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This kind of talk doesn't impress Amy Osborne, who last year fled the U.N.H. dorms for a smoke-friendly habitat off campus. "Whatever," she sighs, rolling her eyes and tapping an ash. "The 20-ft. rule I don't really care about. I mean, who's watching, really...
...wasn’t really something I was expecting but I was definitely pleased to receive it,” said new member John S. Chorba ’03, a chemistry major who is one of the directors of Habitat for Humanity and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity...
...which they found themselves?neat rows of tomatoes and cornflowers and chrysanthemums for export to Europe?leopards came across man-made forests of towering sugarcane. Far from being just a make-do home, says forestry chief Ashokkumar N. Khadse, the cane fields proved to be an ideal leopard habitat. The animals flourished in the impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year of which all six cubs would survive. From negligible numbers 20 years ago, there are now 100 resident adult leopards in an area half the size of Hong Kong; there are 35 in Bori Budruk alone. With food supplies...
...species are in decline, according to a report this week from the National Audubon Society. Issuing its first WatchList since 1997, the Audubon names birds that are imperiled but have not yet been doomed to extinction. The list of 201 species includes the cerulean warbler, which has an Appalachian habitat threatened by mining, and the painted bunting, whose brushland habitat has been gobbled up by sprawl and farming. The decrease in birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries in the global coal mine. "Birds...
...Israel, and for the work he has done since leaving office in 1981. In 1982 Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded the Carter Center, which promotes human rights, democracy and health care. He has traveled the world from East Timor to Haiti mediating conflicts and monitoring elections, and promoted Habitat for Humanity, an organization that builds housing for low-income families. Though Carter, a Democrat, received a congratulatory call from President George W. Bush, the honor was not devoid of politics. In its statement the committee noted that "in a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power...