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...what some scientists have begun to call the sixth great extinction event, this one caused almost entirely by human beings. Human expansion, hunting, deforestation and ultimately climate change are eliminating species at a rate up to 1,000 times higher than the evolutionary norm. Species like the Yangtze River dolphin and the golden toad have disappeared, while a range of animals - from the Sumatran tiger to the silky Sifaka lemur of Madagascar are on the brink...
With its colleges, museums and river-borne punts, Oxford offers plenty to see for the visitor - far more than can be crammed into a day trip from London. Those who want to maximize the experience can now do so in a wallet-friendly way, by booking a college room for the night. Lord Sebastian Flyte might well have sniffed at the thought of tourists tramping across quadrangles and up worn oak staircases - and his creator Evelyn Waugh undoubtedly so - but with accommodation from just $58 a night, it's an attractive prospect for travelers looking for their own little slice...
...YORK, NY — The Lower East Side (the area south of East Houston Street and west of the East River, with disputed boundaries to the west and to the south...
...Turn the stream into a mighty river. About half of the company's costs go to paying the people who fill the envelopes and to the Postal Service. Netflix would love to dispense with those costs and send its product directly to customers by streaming it to their TVs. At the moment about 12,000 of the more than 100,000 titles are available for streaming, but that requires a Blu-ray player or a special Netflix device that sells for about $100. The company doesn't expect to be fully streaming for another five years. That's a long...
...Rush to Save the Treasures Sitting at a junction of the Sahara's historic commercial routes on a lazy bend of the Niger River, Timbuktu used to be a hectic crossroads where gold traders heading north met herders and salt merchants trekking south across the desert. The city's lucrative trade fueled Mali's empires as well as a rich ethnic blend of black Africans and Mediterranean people, and an intellectual ferment with dozens of Koranic schools. Refugees from the Inquisition in Spain brought their libraries with them, and soon began writing and buying more books. Timbuktu's literary output...