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...survey of 4,500 captive elephants worldwide, a team of researchers from the U.K., Canada and Kenya found that once you lock up the giant, space-loving beasts, their health suffers, their median life span plummets, and they quit breeding - the last things you would want for a creature you're ostensibly trying to help survive. "Whether or not it's valid to say zoos keep species alive depends on which species you're talking about," says animal-welfare scientist Georgia Mason of the University of Guelph in Ontario. "Many species do well. Elephants don't." (See TIME...
...Haller—who recently represented a tenant who lost heat, water, and access to his home after the bank changed the lock on the door—says that juries tend to be sympathetic to his clients. In this case, he was awarded over $50,000 for emotional distress and for the diminution of value of the property, and Haller says that there is a “good possibility” that sum will be doubled or tripled...
...Everyone that came in played their heart out tonight,” said Lin. “Whether that meant getting boards or grabbing loose balls, we decided to lock down and that’s what started our comeback...
...other banks it might buy. "It's really changing the landscape," says Timothy Koch, a professor of banking and finance at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. "My recommendation to bankers is get all the capital you can, get all the liquidity you can, and lock in customers now, because they're going to have a lot of alternatives...
This year, the Season of Giving has also coughed up an abundance of holiday-themed applications for the iPhone - scores of them. There are, for instance, various gift-buying apps that range from Better Christmas List ($2.99), which tracks your budget (and recently added a "much-requested passcode lock option") to Hanukah Holiday List ($1.99), which is made by the same dude and does exactly the same thing (but costs, inexplicably, a buck less). Or check out the free GPS Christmas List, which sends you an alert when you're near a store that sells something on your list...