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...righteous for his London superiors. So he's "promoted" to a post in Sandford, where the crime rate is minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action...
Maybe producing pandas and then tossing them into the wild doesn't make sense. According to Jim Harkness, the former WWF chief in China, a range of factors drive the breeding program, notably "the myth that captive breeding will save the panda." The program is a source of national pride; plus there's the fuzzy economics: zoos donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S. four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears...
...Jim Kindred, Chief Warrant Officer Four Army National Guard (ret.), CORINTH, MISS...
...World Health Organization implored students to participate in a cross-university effort to make medicine more affordable for the poor at a packed event yesterday. “There are 10 million deaths each year from conditions for which effective, affordable prevention and treatment exist,” said Jim Yong Kim, who is now chair of the department of social medicine at the Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an organization devoted to improving health care for the poor. Kim’s talk, entitled “Missing Medicines: Making University Drugs Accessible...
...shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners from previous years' basketball victories, and pictures of famous Hokie players from years past. State Senator John Edwards, whose district comprises Blacksburg, worked the front row, shaking hands with U.S. Senators John Warner and Jim Webb and most of the state's U.S. House members...