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...about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger jet cruising into a Manhattan skyscraper pretty much defines pornography (in the bad sense) for Gothamites. But the nation's largest city has little clout in the Academy membership, or in the industry's imagery. New York might as well be New Delhi...
Things are never quiet on the endangered-species list a current membership of 1,176 animals and 747 plants. As 2007 dawns, two iconic species--the polar bear and the bald eagle--are moving in opposite directions in the fight for survival...
Harvard once employed its security guards directly, and those guards enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize...
...There are only between 20,000 and 25,000 of them left in the world, divided among 19 populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and elsewhere. Perhaps the best studied of the groups is the Western Hudson Bay population, which scientists have been monitoring since the 1960s. For decades, membership of the group remained relatively stable, at about 1,200 adults and cubs. Between 1987 and 1994, however - precisely the years in which the rise in global temperatures have become the most evident - the number plummeted to 935, or a die-off of 22%. And that is only...
...after boycotting the talks or nearly a year. But after the resumed six-party talks aimed at bringing the North's nuclear program to an end concluded in Beijing, Friday, it was depressingly clear that Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is in no hurry to end his newly-minted membership in the nuclear club. Pyongyang's delegates refused to even discuss the nuclear program, instead insisting that the talks first solve the issue of some $24 million in North Korean funds that are frozen in a Macau bank account at Washington's behest. The North Koreans even threatened to raise...