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...compound's low green buildings include dorms, a small library, a large classroom and a specimen room, where students can study animal bones, insect specimens and snakes in plastic jars. Founded in 2005, the school is an effort to provide the Masai with income as well as investing in them the importance of conservation. The students learn the habits of the local wildlife, and just as importantly the expectations and behaviors of those that come to see it. Foreign accents are a particular challenge. "The other day, we took a group and they were asking me questions," says Tinka...
...person was not at a high risk for H1N1 as far as travel risk or exposure risk, and the specimen was sent to the lab," Heller said. "They're the ones that do the confirmation and we've not heard anything back from them...
...tribute to the Welsh capital, and “Lliwiau Llachar,” their first song in Welsh since their 2000 decision to start singing exclusively in English. On the evidence of “Lliwiau Llachar,” a Beach Boys-esque specimen of pop harmonizing, this album would be a compelling listen even if all the lyrics were incomprehensible to the non-Welsh listener. “Dark Days/Light Years” is as compelling a reminder as any album in 2009 that the greatest thing a band can hope to provide its audience is pure...
...university’s most sacred of structures, the Harvard Faculty Club, will soon be profaned. I fear that this hallowed hall—once the very epicenter of intellectual conversation and civilized debate—will now become the stomping grounds for this university’s lowest specimen of vermin: students...
...Pick Up Artist.” There they began the friendship that would finally yield Toback’s most recent film, “Tyson,” a documentary that peels away the seemingly infinite layers surrounding the legendary boxer, revealing an alarmingly human specimen coiled in its center. As in his fictional films, Toback is slow to reveal the psychological interior of his controversial protagonist. “This sort of ‘let’s root for this guy’ in movies as if it were a baseball game has always struck...