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About 20 students carrying signs reading "Stop Anti-Catholic Bigotry" and "ACT-UP Tactics Go Beyond The Pale" protested at Dunster House last night, where a group of gay activists were screening a film...
...medium, and the depth of line and color was uniform in the two prints displayed. The bland centerpiece of the series, the plate itself, was diverting only in that it presented this commonplace image inverted. Ruivivar attempted to distinguish one print from its twin by printing it over a pale yellow box previously printed on the paper, but this did not enrich or even qualitatively distinguish the work...
...only lets you take eight-inch steps. That doesn't seem like very much. I thought this was like mountain climbing, but it's really only little steps," the pale fellow added...
Today species are vanishing on a grand scale. There are 1,116 imperiled species on the list, an additional 3,600 candidate species behind them. Some will die out waiting to be listed. These numbers are only a pale reflection of a wider problem. In tropical rain forests, loss of habitat is pushing at least 20,000 species a year into extinction, according to Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson. If the U.S. is to influence policy overseas, it will be by dint of example, not rhetoric. Wealthy nations must check their own appetites before asking far greater sacrifices of poorer...
...dirt on an archaeological dig. "I found some pieces of flint and a reindeer milk tooth," she says proudly, as she huffs up a path to an Ice Age rock shelter. Far below, a narrow valley is bathed in mist. On a forested bluff, a medieval fortress glows in pale yellow light. "The vegetation was different then," she says. "But I need to know the lay of the land, where the ridges are, where the high points are, so I can move my characters through here...