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...answer is to adapt the way we practice wildlife and land conservation to climate change. There's a term for this - adaptive management - and last week the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a Cambridge-based think tank, brought together conservation leaders from around the U.S. to discuss how to cope with warming. Led by James Levitt, the director of the program on conservation innovation at Harvard Forest, dozens of executives from groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, along with a few representatives from the government, tried to work out a new framework for the biggest challenge...
...Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy’s personal secretary, told The Times that the president had asked in July 1962 for “secret recording equipment” to be set up in the Cabinet Room and the Oval Office. “There was no sinister motive,” Lincoln told the newspaper...
According to Lincoln, Kennedy wanted to have recorded conversations to help him write his. But the existence of the tapes was not revealed until 1973, about ten years after the president’s assassination...
...sold French fries to fast-food chains, but the Idaho native also invested in cattle, fertilizer plants and timber--not to mention computer-chip pioneer Micron Technology. The oldest billionaire in the world last year, according to Forbes, Simplot remained ambitious--and proud--driving around Boise in a white Lincoln Town Car with mr. spud vanity plates...
...Cuban-Americans occupying them. But this week the Cook Report, a Beltway guide to state and local elections, changed its "rating" on Florida's 21st congressional district from "solidly Republican" to "likely Republican" - a sign that Democratic challenger Raul Martinez is a genuine threat to eight-term Republican incumbent Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Martinez, in fact, has so far been able to match Diaz-Balart in fund raising - and new reports that Democratic voter registration growth is significantly outstripping that of Republicans in Miami bodes ill for the G.O.P. in the 18th and 25th districts as well...