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...Europe’s population. The forward march of science around the globe has helped keep disease at bay through vaccinations, good hygiene, and quarantines, but international air travel gives upstart pathogens hoping to hit the big time an advantage their ancestors never had. Should the Black Death return, it could crisscross the globe in a matter of hours...
...love of theater. “I was told I wasn’t here to do plays,” he says. “I was really disappointed.” Pecci took the year off and founded an art gallery with friends. Upon his return, Pecci fully immersed himself in the college’s theater scene as an actor, director, and playwright. When President Faust instituted the Task Force on the Arts in 2007, Pecci was asked to join as one of two College students. “It was a good...
...universities can expect to earn back the difference in cost between the tuition at their first-rank private institution and a third-rank public institution more than 30 times over the course of their careers. Ronald Ehrenberg, a Cornell University economist, also found compelling evidence of a significant economic return to attending a private university: a premium that the data suggests has increased over time...
...It’s not until Oppenheimer and history return to view that Hell makes sense, with a line slyly borrowed and modified from Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo”: “August 6, 1945: Heaven abolished.”The show doesn’t so much end as dissolve, which is meant as praise. Too often artists use History to de-fang the past—think “Schindler’s List”—but Videt finds resonance in events which remain indeterminate, unknown...
...Galdikas set up the Camp Leakey rehabilitation center in southern Borneo's Tanjung Putting National Park. To date, the camp has rehabilitated more than 350 orangutans, helping orphaned former pets successfully return to the wild. It also continues to care for another 300 juveniles. To help raise money for its work - and for the charity over which Galdikas presides, Orangutan Foundation International, www.orangutan.org - Camp Leakey is open to visitors, who are encouraged to "adopt" a young orangutan by contributing towards its keep. (See 10 things to do in Washington, D.C.: National...