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...endangered species - especially big cats like jaguars, mountain lions and tigers, whose numbers in the wild dwindle every year. Starting in Belize in 1984, when he talked the government into creating the world's first ever jaguar preserve, Rabinowitz has emerged as the global spokesman for big cats, a scientist willing to talk to anyone, at any time, in the service of animals. His mentor, the great naturalist George Schaller, has said that Rabinowitz is "superb at finding local solutions to conservation problems," in part because the Brooklyn-born scientist knows that wildlife will be safe only if the governments...
Cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl's book reports on homosexual couplings among animals [BEHAVIOR, April 26], but for anyone to use the example of male giraffes rubbing each other as justification for homosexuality in humans is ludicrous. There are species of crocodiles in which adults frequently eat the young. Should we then declare this type of animal behavior acceptable grounds for human infanticide? DAVID JENKINS Clifton...
...aftermath of his victory, Samak said Thaksin "must stay away from politics for a while" while he fights to have the cases against him resolved in the courts; other members of the PPP have predicted Thaksin could return by Valentine's Day. But Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University, says that Samak will have to keep Thaksin off the agenda - and out of power - if he wants to win over parties to join his coalition. "Samak will need to be pragmatic and flexible. He may have to listen to Thaksin, but he also has to listen to civil...
...Many people got fed up with Blocher's aggressive and combative manner," says Georg Lutz, a political scientist at Bern University. "When you are part of a coalition government you should try to find common ground with the others. But he just pursued his own agenda and polarized the whole country...
...already in the final stages of commercial development of a wireless captioning-subtitling system in collaboration with a licensee and leaders in the movie industry. TIME's failure to recognize long-standing innovators in this area and inability to perform due diligence are very disheartening. Leanne West, Senior Research Scientist, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, ATLANTA...