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...Zimbabwe permission to sell 110 tons of stockpiled ivory to China and Japan. The E.U. allowed that sale on the condition that there would be a nine-year moratorium on future stockpile sales, but CITES applied that ban only to those four countries - leaving Tanzania and Zambia open to request their own sales. "We keep moving the goalposts," says Steven Broad, the executive director of TRAFFIC International, which monitors wildlife trade. (See pictures of wildlife and ecosystems endangered by global warming...
...Graf declined to be interviewed for this article. She is now headed for the Navy weapons lab at Dahlgren, Va., a bureaucratic backwater where she is virtually certain to face a follow-up hearing that could end her career - if she doesn't request retirement first...
...Main Library and other library related issues, a possible meeting of various stakeholders in the Central Square community for the purpose of discussing and reviewing current action plans for Central Square, an evaluation of Grozier Road, which has a number of road defects, for resurfacing and repair, and a request that the Massachusetts Legislature ot conduct an independent cost-benefit analysis of Level III gambling in Massachusetts...
Hopefully, Yale will soon extend gender-neutral housing options to all upperclassmen. Yale freshmen, like Harvard freshmen, are placed in randomized housing arrangements, making gender-neutral arrangements much more difficult. Harvard already makes provisions for entering first-year transgender students, should they request special housing arrangements, as well as options for transferring rooms after arriving on campus. That being said, the Freshman Dean’s Office is justified in seeking to create diverse rooming assignments, and we hope that students are comfortable abiding by the FDO’s decisions...
...sale of government land to his wife. He also told supporters that if the ruling went against him, he would take his case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ICJ, however, only decides on cases of international law, or issues advisory opinions at the request of U.N. agencies. A Thai government spokesman told local newspapers that it is unlikely the ICJ would accept Thaksin's case as it is not in its jurisdiction...