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...sounds counterintuitive, but you have to build economies around protection," says Gustavo Fonseca, senior vice president for science at Conservation International. With 6 billion people and counting, the world is too crowded to fence off wilderness areas and ignore the impact on human livelihood. Communities must be able to prosper alongside wilderness without encroaching on it. "The future of conservation can be described in one word: zoning," says Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. "We cannot stop development, nor should we. The most we can do is have it in places where it does...
...involved, but in China alone the average verbal score rose by more than 14% this year compared with last year, a gain officials say can only be explained by mass cheating. Officials can't tell who broke the rules, so all individual scores will stand. Who says cheaters never prosper...
...involved, but in China alone the average verbal score rose by more than 14% this year compared with last year, a gain officials say can only be explained by mass cheating. Officials can't tell who broke the rules, so all individual scores will stand. Who says cheaters never prosper...
...surveying how much I have changed, appreciating the unpredictable ways in which my view of the world has expanded, and marveling at how I have been the beneficiary of innumerable twists of fate and happy coincidences. Somehow, circumstances have conspired to make me happy here; they have let me prosper within the opportunities, academic and non-academic, provided by Harvard, and I am grateful for that...
...lesson: the Third World can prosper if the rich world gives it a fair go. This is what makes Bush's decision to increase farm subsidies two weeks ago all the more depressing. Poor countries have long suspected that the rich world urges trade liberalization only so it can wangle its way into new markets. Such suspicions caused the Seattle trade talks to break down three years ago. But last November members of the World Trade Organization, meeting in Doha, Qatar, finally agreed to a new round of talks designed to open up global trade in agriculture and textiles. Rich...