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...today the African elephant stands on a precipice once again. The nations of Tanzania and Zambia are petitioning CITES, which begins a major meeting in Doha on March 13, to "downlist" the conservation status of elephants so that they can sell stockpiled ivory on the open market - ivory they say comes from elephants that have died naturally or was seized from illegal poachers. But conservationists argue that over the past decade illegal poaching has risen steadily, and if the elephant is downlisted in some African nations it could have a devastating impact for the species as a whole. Nothing less...
...even more young people perceive a gap. According to a recently released Pew Research Center report, 79% of millennials say there is a major difference in the point of view of younger and older people today. Young Americans are now more educated, more diverse, more optimistic and less likely to have a job than previous generations. But it is in their use of technology that millennials see the greatest difference, starting perhaps with the fact that 83% of them sleep with their cell phones. Change now comes so strong and fast that it pulls apart even those who wish...
That hunger for community further distinguishes them from the radical individualists of the baby-boom years. In fact, in some respects the millennials emerge as radically conventional. Asked about their life goals, 52% say being a good parent is most important to them, followed by having a successful marriage; 59% think that the trend of more single women having children is bad for society. While more tolerant than older generations, they are still more likely to disapprove of than support the trend of unmarried couples living together. While they're more politically progressive than their elders, you could argue that...
...name is Brogan A. Berry ’12, and people always say she looks like a squirrel, frolicking in the yard, nibbling on nuts, and stowing things away for winter. She knows how to use a Bumpit like Snooki, will laugh at the worst of your jokes, and went for the price of $100 last Thursday at Tommy Doyle?...
...bringing in just short of $1,500 in less than two hours. And with bombshells the likes of Jackie M. Alemany ’11 (“My stock is always rising!”) and Jeremy S. Lin ’10 (“People always say I look like every other Asian guy”), 10 of the 12 auctionees were priced in the triple digits. David F. Boswell ’10, who said on his registration sheet that he liked “auctioning off his body for noble causes?...