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...wildlife reserves grow in size, however, they need to change. Pristine sanctuaries without human interference are simply impossible - endangered animals and people need to learn to live with one other. In the Hukawng Valley reserve, which would eventually grow to an area the size of Vermont, that meant Rabinowitz needed to enlist the help of local people. Over years of meetings, he managed to convince many of them to stop hunting tigers and the wild game that is the animals' main source of food. At the same time, Rabinowitz didn't stand in the way of some economic development...
...railroads and roads, as well as container berths at the port. And power is the really big issue." This, says Yoon, is where the South Korean government under Lee Myung Bak could come in. "We've had discussions with the government; the investment needed [for infrastructure] is of the size that only with government involvement could it be done...
...policy that could soon change. The Committee on College Life will today discuss altering the student electronic privacy policy to formally limit the administration’s ability to access student data. The current policy allows administrators to request information on e-mail content and the time, date, and size of e-mail messages when necessary “to ensure compliance with University rules.” Secretary of the Administrative Board John “Jay” L. Ellison wrote in an e-mail that in practice the disciplinary body never requests content. The proposed changes would...
...paid out this fiscal year. Harvard’s rate is now 4.3 percent. Though Yale’s $22.5 billion-endowment trails Harvard’s by more than $10 billion, the fund has outperformed its rival for more than a decade. In response to the ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed...
...prove it. I was down 13 to 15 points [laughs] but I could sense the change coming. And then I felt it for sure when I got back from going out at the crack of dawn, actually before dawn, on Tuesday morning. I felt really good by the size of the crowds I had Saturday, Sunday, Monday. But then when we actually went out to polling places, and I looked at voters and they looked at me, I shook their hands and we saw people just randomly. I stopped at a Dunkin' Donuts and just began to ask people...