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Tuna has long been a standard item on my shopping list. Not anymore. A small contribution to conservation, perhaps, but one by one it may make a difference. Thank you TIME for regularly alerting readers to the planet's predicament. Cilla Geldenhuys, WITSAND, SOUTH AFRICA...
...advocates say, REDD will alleviate poverty, preserve rain forests, protect endangered species and do more to avert catastrophic climate change than grounding jets and banning coal. It also offers a rare partnership between two disparate and often conflicting worlds: capitalism and conservation. With REDD, you can save the planet and make money...
...Anderson's stop-motion-animation delight Fantastic Mr. Fox, with George Clooney contributing his voice to the Roald Dahl children's classic, purloined a so-so $7 million in its first weekend of wide release; it earned about the same per-screen average as the much feebler animated feature Planet 51. The Road, with Viggo Mortensen enduring many a hardship in the film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, took in a sturdy $1.5 million at 111 theaters, to finish a mere $10,000 behind Clooney's 10th-place The Men Who Stare at Goats. In a special...
...weekend, $25.6 million five days; $138.8 million, third week 4. Old Dogs, $16.8 million weekend, $24.1 million five days; first week 5. A Christmas Carol, $16 million weekend, $22.6 million five days; $105.4 million, fourth week 6. Ninja Assassin, $13.1 million weekend, $21 million five days; first week 7. Planet 51, $10.2 million weekend, $13.9 million, five days; $28.5 million, second week 8. Precious, $7.1 million weekend, $9.4 million five days; $32.5 million, fourth week 9. Fantastic Mr. Fox, $7 million weekend, $9.5 million five days; $10.1 million, third week 10. The Men Who Stare at Goats...
...recent months, the Harvard College chapter has been soliciting donations for a project to overhaul the research facilities at Kenyatta University in Kenya—one of the poorest nations on the planet. According to Michael F. Qian ’11, co-president of the Harvard Seeding Labs chapter, the school hopes to become a major research facility but currently lacks the equipment to compete with other institutions of higher education...