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...more imminent danger comes from the annihilation of forests - especially tropical rain forests, which house a richer variety of animals and plants than anywhere else on the planet. Papua New Guinea lost more than a quarter of its forests from 1972 to 2002, and the BBC team noted that trees were being logged just 20 miles from where the Bosavi woolly rat was found. As of 2005, some 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres) of primary, untouched forest were being leveled annually - and each time a rain forest is burned or logged, it takes with it species we'll never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dozens of New Species Found in Island Crater | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...Some of us are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and were deeply hurt by the implication that those stories passed on to us of our past—of lives lost and families destroyed—were all lies concocted by a vast Jewish conspiracy,” the joint letter said...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holocaust Ad Printed in The Crimson Elicits Outrage | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...staff and its institutions, we were shocked and pained by this immoral subversion of our own publication of record. Some of us are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and were deeply hurt by the implication that those stories passed on to us of our past—of lives lost and families destroyed—were all lies concocted by a vast Jewish conspiracy. Like President Obama, we can view such “baseless” sentiments with nothing but revulsion. That the Harvard Crimson would choose to fund its activities with money garnered from the promotion of such...

Author: By Harvard Undergraduates for historical honesty | Title: Setting Holocaust History Straight | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...just A Beautiful Mind or Proof either. In Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar wins over his long-lost girlfriend when she's about to marry his arch-rival, by reciting the poem that she had tried to get him to read aloud when they first met (and made out) in a library...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: True Love in an Integer | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...Bottles labeled with the logo of a swan - a reference to the name for a particular pipe on the still - are showing up at the city's smartest bars, restaurants and shops, including the Met Bar, the Dorchester and Harvey Nichols. Clearly, Galsworthy and Hall are making up for lost time. See more at www.sipsmith.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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