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...than a barrel produced yesterday," Reiten, a former Norwegian Minister for Petroleum and Energy, told TIME a couple of days before his resignation. With StatoilHydro's decades of experience operating in the tricky terrain and climate off Norway's coast, the company could become the industry specialist at tackling the world's most difficult jobs...
...compilation of the planet's 25 most endangered primate species. "If you took the remaining individuals of these species and gave them a ticket to a football stadium, they would not fill it," says Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International and chairman of the World Conservation Union's Primate Specialist Group. "They [number] well under 100,000. It's very sobering...
...organizations. Groups like the Endangered Primate Rescue Center, founded largely on foreign initiative, help keep track of primate populations and train local scientists how to protect them. And while it may foster a habit of donor dependency, the collaboration between local preservation groups and NGOs pays off. One Vietnamese specialist whom Rawson trained has helped record the country's largest single group of grey-shanked douc langurs, a gorgeous monkey with an orange face and white beard that lives in the highlands of central Vietnam. Some organizations have even hired primate hunters, whose keen tracking skills make them useful...
...psychology, for example, is different from what counts for evidence in anthropology, history, economics, literature, or the life sciences. What is considered an interesting question in one discipline will be irrelevant in another. No single Expos course can possibly equip a student to know how to write as a specialist in a field, much less in several...
...Nowadays it's much tougher to keep a lid on a juicy story as these events testify. Razi Mireskandari, a partner at the law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton and a specialist in media law, says he can imagine a scenario in which a gag order might become untenable because websites, wherever they are based, "are becoming freely accessible by nearly everybody. There could be an issue of trying to put your thumb in the dam, but it hasn't quite got to that stage yet." In the case of the anonymous royal embroiled in the alleged blackmail plot...