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...service has an annual budget of just $20 million to look after tens of thousands of elephants. What's more, while Asian elephants remain in jeopardy - with only about 60,000 of them left - cost-effective wildlife-protection programs have allowed the African elephant population to rebound to a robust 500,000. "African elephants are a conservation success story," says Mason. That's true enough of much of the free population; not so much for the detainees...
Today, Russia's finances look a lot less robust. The government budget was based on oil at $70 per barrel, way above the current ? level, and it will consequently swing into deficit next year for the first time since 2001. The stock market has dropped more than 70% in the past year, as the nation's business élite dumped stocks to repay the huge loans they took out to finance acquisitions in Russia and abroad. Capital is fleeing - investors have pulled about $190 billion out of Russia since August - and the ruble is under pressure...
...year with a small surplus for the first time in recent memory. This year, the UC will need to stretch its budget even more in order to help mitigate the increased burden felt by student groups and house committees as publications find the pool of advertisers shallower and formerly robust corporate sponsors pull out of events they have traditionally funded. However, while it is necessary for the UC to be more judicious with its funding policies and financial management, it is equally essential for student groups to review their own operations conscientiously to help ensure that the UC?...
...present legislation, which the six-person drafting committee has been working on since March, would give students greater freedom to form their own plan of study, accompanied by more robust advising from a faculty member. English concentrators must complete 11 courses for the non-honors track: six English electives, one English 90 seminar, and one class in each of four newly-created “common-ground modules,” in the words of English professor W. James Simpson, who helped draft the proposal. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...because they’re more delicate.”But Lewis believes that poetry also has a meaning beyond the individual poet; it resonates physically within an individual and politically within a society.“If we don’t have language that’s robust and honest on the political level, we get sick as a society,” Lewis says. “Poetry shows language at its most eloquent, and the whole of society needs it.” Now at Harvard, Lewis is excited about her tenure as a Radcliffe Institute...