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According to many students, such a system is long overdue. When Eric I. Kouskalis ’07 tried to obtain a transcript for applications to summer schools while away for a semester in Namibia, he encountered what he called a “month-long ordeal...
...cats, by nature, are territorial, live in low densities and hunt their prey over vast stretches of land (a tiger in the Russian Far East roams over 400 sq. mi., and a cheetah in Namibia will traverse 600 sq. mi.). A wildlife reserve has to be huge to support such animals, and even large parks can contain just so many of the fiercely territorial creatures. Big cats that roam or live outside reserves increasingly find themselves on turf staked out by farmers, herders and loggers, especially in parts of Africa and Asia where the human population is booming. Wild prey...
...Namibia has 3,000 cheetahs--the single largest remaining population in Africa--but ranchers shoot them for attacking cattle. Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund has been importing Anatolian shepherds, 160-lb. dogs bred in Turkey to protect livestock from wolves. She trains the Anatolians and then gives them to ranches, where they will stand their ground against the much smaller cheetah. Problem cheetahs that kill cattle are sometimes captured and fed an alternating diet of wild game and beef laced with lithium chloride. The beef sickens the cheetahs, persuading them to stick to wild meat...
...more traditional careers offered in the corporate sector. The CID provides just that—last year alone, the Center disbursed over $16,000 in grants to undergraduates for summer research in developing countries. Since 2002, 30 students have participated in fully-funded internships as English instructors in Namibia, Costa Rica, China and Ecuador through the Center’s alliance with WorldTeach. Prominent policymakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations have attended CID dinners to speak to students about careers and issues related to development; last fall, this roster included the former Zambian ambassador to the United States...
...MINING The ore, known as kimberlite, is dug or blasted from mines; the deposits are then crushed and boiled in grease and water to separate the diamonds. About 80% of the world's rough stones come from Angola, Australia, Botswana, Namibia, Russia, South Africa and Zaire...