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...case may result in a major tightening of safety standards. The California Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether an amusement-park ride should be classified as a "common carrier" rather than as entertainment. If the court upholds a lower appellate decision, such California parks as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm will fall into the same category as buses, taxis, elevators and ski lifts--and will have to conform to a standard of "utmost care" rather than "reasonable care." That could mean lower speeds, more restraints and fewer thrills...
...addition to receiving a grant from National Geographic, Knott also receives funding from the Leakey Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Science Foundation...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the world’s leading field researchers studying orangutans in the wild. She embodies the National Geographic mission —leading a research project that is answering basic questions about wild orangutans while at the same time working to conserve a species that is fighting for survival,” said Barbara Moffet, a National Geographic spokesperson...
...Knott, who obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1999, currently researches the evolutionary implications of two types of males in orangutan society...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the most deeply committed young primatologists that I know, who is equally concerned with their conservation and the most basic aspects of their physiology and biology,” said David Pilbeam, curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology...