Word: markers
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...colorful magic marker and construction paper poster advertising FAST brightens one otherwise dull corner of the room...
...largest remaining cheetah population--about 3,000--inhabits the harshly beautiful savannah of Namibia in southwest Africa. That's where conservation biologist Laurie Marker, founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, hopes to ensure the great cat's survival. She sees it as a test case of whether human development and wildlife habitats can coexist. "If we can save the cheetah here," says Marker, "we are talking about saving an entire ecosystem. We can save the world...
...Marker, 45, first encountered cheetahs 25 years ago; they were in captivity at the Oregon wildlife park where she worked. Over the years she developed a successful cheetah breeding program. In the 1980s Marker made several trips to Namibia, where she began to use a cheetah she had raised in Oregon, named Khayam, to study the possibility of returning the cats to the wild. Although the animal hunted and killed by instinct, without the 18 to 22 months of training that a young cheetah gets from its mother, Khayam couldn't learn how to survive...
...However, one first-year has taken up another noble pursuit. Jonathan M. Guberman '03 of Canaday F searches for sins. It started about one month before winter break, when Guberman was crossing the hall to hang out with the guys. He noticed the word "greed" written in faint orange marker on the doorjamb. He asked his neighbors about the word, but they knew nothing beyond that it had been there for a while. Guberman thought nothing of it and continued with his normal daily activities...
...velocity. I sometimes wonder what the furious acceleration in the rate of change in our lives does to the faculty of memory and to the moral meanings we are capable of absorbing from our experience. It is now exactly a year since Colombine (so long ago), which shares the marker with Oklahoma City, ten thousand news cycles gone...