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First, conservationists say, we need to do everything we can to slow carbon emissions and reduce the impact of climate change. "That's priority number one," says Mittermeier. But some degree of warming is inevitable, so conservationists have to prepare. That means creating not just reserves, but safe nature corridors that would allow wildlife to migrate in the face of rising temperatures. Another method is to try to connect existing reserves through reforestation - a technique already underway in Madagascar, where the government is looking to vastly increase the total amount of protected land. What's certain is that we need...
...main innovation was bringing a grande piano onstage and a brilliant musician, Freda Locker, to sit at it.The piece d’occasion fared much better. Set to Chopin, “Rhyme”—a world premiere choreographed by Viktor Plotnikov—began with slow, silent movement, with the dancers captured in spotlights like snapshots. This set the stage for a moving and harmonious pas de deux with shockingly acrobatic movements accomplished with the greatest degree of finesse and taste. The highlight was certainly Larissa Ponomarenko’s highly arched instep beating the ground...
...There’s a terrific level of intensity when you play Big Ten schools,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said of the opposition, which included Notre Dame, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Western Michigan, and Ball State. “The courts were really slow, so there were lots of long points. It was a great test of our stamina.” While the Crimson played together on the first two days of competition, the third day of play pitted players with comparable records against each other, and scoring was counted individually...
...that improving lighting along Garden Street and in Cambridge Common is complicated by the issue of jurisdiction too, and Riley said that such additions would require the city’s cooperation. Ellison, the chair of the Harvard College Safety Committee, cautioned that working with the city can be slow. Ellison’s committee, which brings together undergraduate and graduate students, HUPD, the city of Cambridge, and the Harvard administration, will begin meeting at the end of the month. All three speakers emphasized that students must play a role in improving safety on campus. Riley said students must lock...
...potentially harmful effects of the crisis. Although the country's membership in the World Trade Organization has required it to open its financial services sector to global competition and investment in 2006, "there is still only a narrow range of derivative instruments and innovation in financial products is still slow," says Sun Fei, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Hong Kong-based fund manager China International Capital. In other words, China's financial sector is just primitive enough to have prevented its banks from getting burned by buying complicated and ultimately toxic subprime mortgage products and derivative securities...