Word: rareness
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...deal with such a rare urban problem, Delhi has come up with an unusual response: it's launched a monkey arms race. Companies and city officials have started employing langurs - large, black-faced apes - to protect buildings and scare off the smaller rhesus monkeys. "Any langur will do the business," says Zahid Khan, 20, who has been handling langurs since he was eight and most days chains one or two outside the Press Trust of India building, which houses TIME's Delhi bureau. "The monkeys are petrified of them...
...Connecticut judge sentenced map thief E. Forbes Smiley III to five years in prison Friday, ending a saga that began after Yale University librarians found his Exacto knife on the floor of their rare books library—a smoking gun in the 15-month-long case...
Smiley’s five-year sentence follows a three-and-a-half-year sentence handed down last month in federal court, after the 50-year-old admitted to stealing nearly 100 rare maps, including eight from Harvard’s Houghton Library...
Andrei Shleifer ’82, the prominent Harvard economist who found himself at the center of a rare ethics investigation for his alleged role in defrauding the U.S. government, has been stripped of his endowed title as the Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Economics.Beginning on Friday, Shleifer was listed in the Harvard directory as a “Professor of Economics” at Harvard, a step down from the more prestigious, endowed Jones post.“I was a professor of economics at Harvard last week, and I am a professor of economics at Harvard this week...
...tenacity ultimately resulted in a game-tying goal at 58:00.Still hungry for more, the Bulldogs continued their rush, nearly taking the lead in the last eight minutes. Connolly held strong between the pipes, clearing the ball out of the path of a Yale breakaway.Junior Siobhan Connolly, making a rare appearance in the cage, relieved sophomore starter Kelly Knoche for the second half and both overtime periods.“As a goalie you always have to be mentally prepared to step in there and play,” said Connolly, who rejected six Bulldog shots and pulled the plug...