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...Madagascar are manifold: rampant deforestation that has stripped most of the island of its original forest cover, leaving a wasteland; a human population that is growing at 3% a year, straining natural resources and hunting animals for food, especially Madagascar's emblematic lemurs; extractive industry, including a nickel mine not far from a national park that could become the world's biggest...
...time I saw the Obama gear, I knew it had begun. I do not mean the official campaign paraphernalia. I'm talking about the wares hawked here in Harlem, the black tees sold in sizes up to 5XL, with Barack Obama's head slightly out of proportion. I bought mine on Lenox and 125th--a mustard number with Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama juxtaposed underneath the words ALPHA and OMEGA. That's when I smelled the air and understood that Obama was running not simply to be President but also to be the next head chiseled on the face...
...that can often be dismissed as dead or boring by exploring the larger meaning and implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past for those artifacts is if they can suggest something bigger than the sum of their parts, and that involves higher emotions.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...think this is karma for people who thought their career plans were more concrete than mine, that I was building my dreams on a cloud for studying humanities,” Julienne R. Coleman ’11 said. “Now we’re all on the same level. We’re all unsure about the future...
...Bulldog quarterbacks’ bodies and pride and stumped the great Mike McLeod, Yale’s juggernaut of a running back. The result was a 17-14 Big Red win and a dumbfounded look on the face of the Ivy League pundits.Predictions be damned.Having said that, here are mine:HARVARD (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) AT LAFAYETTE (3-0)Lafayette has a lot of aesthetic appeal, with an undefeated record and gaudy offensive statistics, like running back Maurice White’s 131 yards per game. But the Leopards padded their numbers against lightweights Marist and Georgetown...