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...residents who canoe and kayak is similarly alarmed. In a statement, it wrote, "We are concerned about the irony of 2008 being Olympic year. Our athletes will need to transport their equipment to pre-Olympic events, training camps and to the Olympics themselves in Beijing, China. This will significantly limit our athletes' ability to prepare for important events. And it will have further significant implications as we head towards the London 2012 Olympics." Newly crowned European long board champion and English champion Ben Skinner is also raising his voice in protest, saying, "As part of the British team I have...
...never set eyes on a Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey before, the species' well-being may affect our own. "Things may not change very much if we lose one more primate species," says Tilo Nadler, director of the Endangered Primate Rescue Center in northern Vietnam. "But where is the limit? ... It is our environment, and primates are part of the biodiversity ecosystem...
...left to play. The next day, Chute rejoined the first line in the third frame and McDonald returned to the second line with juniors Jenny Brine and Sarah Wilson. A checking line comprised of Buesser, junior Kristen Kester, and sophomore Randi Griffin was constructed to improve defense and limit faceoffs in the defensive zone. The revamped Vaillancourt line went on to notch two goals within a minute and a half in the third period. “We didn’t really try to match lines,” Stone said of the adjustments...
...asked for forgiveness on that same vote) and her support last month of a resolution calling on President Bush to label as terrorists the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has also come out swinging on other policy matters - voicing his opposition this week to a bipartisan bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which he says doesn't go far enough, as well as to the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress right now. He's also proposed legislation that would ban for two years the advertising of new drugs, and also supports a West Point-like academy for teachers...
...uphill battle, but the country's previous success at changing attitudes is encouraging. Thirty years ago, most Vietnamese had a strong preference for families of four and five children. That has now been replaced with a general desire for smaller families, enough so that the official two-child limit has been eased. Sultan Aziz, the U.N. Population Fund's Asia-Pacific director, says Vietnam might still be able to nip the gender imbalance in the bud. "If any country can do that," Aziz says. "Vietnam...