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...home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade. On the winding road we see the result of centuries of tavy, traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. The verdant forests that once covered much of Madagascar have been burnt or torn down, replaced by muddy rice paddies and secondary shrubs. This loss of habitat is the primary driver of extinction on Madagascar. The trees support a web of life, from the hefty indri to dazzlingly tiny frogs that fit on your pinky, but deforestation in Madagascar is so severe that the island's soil, unmoored by the loss of the trees, simply slides into...
...people. "We're bringing back the shelter of the forests, and we don't have to cut trees for charcoal," says Herve Tahirimalala, 28, who is paid about $100 a month to work the plantation - a decent wage in one of the poorest nations on Earth. Poverty and habitat loss go hand in hand in Madagascar and in much of the developing world, and only win-win solutions will work for conservation...
...their finest.Look for Princeton to rebound against the Mountain Hawks behind the dangerous Brian Anderson, a veritable running threat at quarterback. Lehigh lost its own versatile signal caller, Sedale Threatt Jr., to graduation last year, and the team should be rusty after a two week layover following a loss to Villanova.Prediction: Princeton 17, Lehigh 10—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...defensive core, we’re going to be as strong as we’ve ever been. We’re going to go out, be committed to the defense, do the little things right and we’ll be fine. [Losing our goalie] is a loss, but it happens all the time, and we’ll come out this season just as confident.”The Crimson’s strong defensive core will be a necessary asset as it tests out its three candidates for the starting goaltender position, none of whom have much...
...investments, leaving its total endowment relatively unchanged at $17.2 billion, after expenditures. Officials at Harvard’s neighbor, MIT, said yesterday that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted...