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...Turtles - except for the occasional slow road-crosser - are not on most Americans' radar. But the Asian appetite for turtles, whose meat and body parts are believed to hold a variety of medicinal and life-enhancing qualities, is creating a global market for U.S. turtles and tortoises...
...after another - Burma, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, then Sumatra," says van Dijk. Typically, the trade follows a three- to five-year boom and bust cycle, van Dijk says, adding that 75% of Asia's 90 species of tortoise and freshwater turtles now are threatened. Worldwide about 40% of long-lived, slow to mature species are at immediate risk of extinction, according to CI. Now, conservationists fear the Chinese turtle trade has the U.S. in its sights...
...Dijk found about 1000 turtle farms in China. But van Dijk says the farms cannot support the rising demand in a country where incomes are also rising. Wild turtles are still valued by consumers over farm-raised stock and Chinese turtle farmers prefer wild breeding stock. Turtles may be slow movers, but when they escape farms they can pose a breeding and disease threat to already diminished local species...
...liberal arts education at Harvard is provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not the Faculty of Arts or Sciences. A well-balanced education isn’t the quickest path to fulfill requirements for professional school, but rather a slow process that gives students tools through which they can comprehend the world they live in. Harvard needs to take more seriously its commitment to interdisciplinary studies that not only cross departmental lines, but also cross the humanities-science barrier. If not, then we will be able to watch the death of more concentrations in the near future...
Maybe I’m bitter because my cell phone plan only gives me something like 50 free texts per month, and I always go over my limit (sorry Mom). Maybe I’m upset because my finger reflexes are a bit slow, and I can’t churn out 160 characters in 42 seconds like the text-messaging record holder (it’s a real competition, look...