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...It’s certainly not a walk in the park by any means,” West confesses. “I’m going to have a heck of a time winning...
Duncan, who grew up in the diverse Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park where his mother ran an after-school tutoring program for under-privileged children, said he had witnessed gross inequities between his education at the University of Chicago Lab School and the education of his neighbors in other schools...
That ambition, at least, is admirable. But for all Medvedev's project evokes of free thinkers brainstorming in a park, it still has a distinctly Soviet feel. It relies on central planning rather than a movement of geeks in garages, and it will be managed by the state. What it reveals, experts say, is the irreconcilable conflict between the Kremlin's new-age ambitions and age-old desire to control...
...says Robert Rockwell, a biologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and co-author of a new paper documenting a spate of recent grizzly sightings in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist. Before 1996, there had been no evidence of grizzlies in the national park, but between 1996 and 2009, Rockwell says, there were nine confirmed sightings, plus three more...
Some experts have suggested that the grizzlies might not stick around long enough to face off with the polar bears, says Rockwell, but he isn't buying that. The 4,000-plus-sq.-mi. park where hunting is banned is what Rockwell calls a "food mecca" for grizzlies. Wapusk is home to some 7,000 caribou, an equal number of moose and untold numbers of rabbits, fish, geese and other creatures. When Rockwell and his team ask the real experts - the Cree elders whose ancestors have lived there for generations - they say, "Why would a bear that's found...