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...that the world requires, various activities, particularly habitat destruction, are elevating species extinctions to something like 1,000 times the normal rate. The choice is therefore not between economic activity and environmental luxury, as some have viewed biological conservation, but rather between maximum and diminished potential for economic return. Joint ventures in tropical nations to which they bring their genetic capital, and companies in industrialized nations bring technological capital, would provide serious incentives to protect biological diversity...
...movie's global reach is a large part of the problem. Things would be a lot more exciting if the implacable crazy were constantly hanging around the neighborhood, turning every shadow, shrub and fast-food joint into a potential menace (see Robert De Niro in Cape Fear). And the film's fascination with the CIA's high-tech capabilities for worldwide surveillance of miscellaneous creeps is not as stirring as its makers seem to think. It leads to lots of shots of people intently staring into computer screens or exchanging testy dialogue in small rooms...
...Gates and the other senior faculty members are continuing to seek scholars to fill its remaining open faculty positions, Five joint searches are in the works with the Divinity School and the History, Fine Arts, Music and Comparative Literature Departments...
...certainly believe that networking is an appropriate area to do joint planning. If each faculty and department had a different phone system, it would not be conducive to sharing ideas for research," Armstrong says...
...think the open communication among unions is consistent with our own effort to encourage collaboration [within the administration]," Zeckhauser says. "Those efforts mirror some of the joint planning efforts that President Rudenstine has initiated...