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...good news is that at the upcoming CITES summit, nations will have the chance to once more put a stop to the elephant trade. CITES is the rare international treaty with real teeth - countries that decide to defy it can face serious trade sanctions. As the experts in this week's Science put it, "no 'one-off' ivory sales should be approved." They have the power to prevent another - and bloodier - ivory...
Recently, my family was notified that we were allowed to apply for permanent residency in the United States. It’s a bit of news that we find both welcome and funny, considering that we came to this country in 1992. We first lived in New York City, in one of those neighborhoods in Queens where playing with the Greek and Puerto Rican kids often meant that no one had any idea what anyone else was saying...
Several engineering concentrators expressed enthusiasm about the news, though they noted that this change comes relatively late...
...course of his remarkable rise from cable sideshow to Fox News superstar, Glenn Beck has never really faced a serious challenge...
...make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to the machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News's tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck and other Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals a "huge mistake," put his hand over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach. Massa, who has opposed Obama's health reform because it is not liberal enough, told Beck that he should stop calling people names like "socialist" and "communist...