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When you're on the lookout for lemurs - the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar - it helps to have good eyes (lemurs are small), sharp ears (they rustle the trees) and a keen nose (they have an unmistakable smell...
...impoverished mine worker, Motlanthe came of age politically as a student activist during the Soweto uprising of 1976, and the following year was imprisoned for his role in those events. He spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position...
...they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit that's flexible and has life support...
...Climate change has finally gained prominence on the international stage—the U.N. debate on climate begins this week—but Tong views this shift as too little, too late for island countries that will be affected regardless of “whatever we do.” As a result, he has begun the early stages of Kiribati’s coping strategy—an eventual full-scale evacuation of citizens to various recipient countries...
...live if we cannnot travel there to begin with?” Mara I. Rodriguez ’08 said after the event. The recent graduate challenged Gutierrez, asking him why America’s relationship with communist China is different than its relationship with the communist island 90 miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human right violations the center of its attention and linked the country’s longtime and ailing leader Fidel Castro with terrorist groups. “I believe that Fidel Castro is first and foremost anti...