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Gunshots were heard this week from the key patrol post Bukima, where government troops are trying to push the rebels out of the park. Says Newport: "The gorillas are confused and could get caught in the crossfire. They are not a target, but happen to live in a part of the world with a lot of human conflict." The larger problem, of course, is one of stability. The gorillas have weathered conflict before, with nearly 150 shot dead by either gunmen or poachers in the last ten years alone...
...African dance troupe or elects a woman to its highest office. In the not-too-distant past, neither of these events would have happened; it took the institution’s human side—the strength of its community members’ moral convictions—to push it toward the image of Harvard that will be on full view today in Tercentenary Theatre...
...this class—one they can’t get by doing digital photography on their own. “You can’t do this at home,” he remarks, as he explains that the high-end computer lab and the printing facilities would push the digital photography students to edit at an advanced level, something the average digital camera owner doesn’t have access to. For Killip, the move to update VES photography goes beyond a question of art—it’s about future careers...
...Ultimately it’s not about the building, its about the work that happens in the building,” says Megan. “There was a desire to push the envelope in terms of our understanding of what theater could be at Harvard, so there was also a question of what happens programmatically...
...global warming will be fought not with PowerPoint but with politics, and it will be fought in the halls of power around the world. The scientists represented by the IPCC have spoken - what we need now are passionate, even partisan political soldiers to lead the way and push the final tipping point from awareness to action...