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...Antarctic travel boom is due, in part, to improved technology that makes the region less remote. On race day, event sponsor Capella University, an online college based in Minnesota, beams back live video footage via satellite. But another reason is less tangible. There is, it seems, a growing romance with the untouched continent, the site of many - if not most - of the world's last truly pristine landscapes. International treaties preserve Antarctica for scientific research and tourism. And, unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic has yet to see many drastic effects of climate change. Visitors can still see cliffs...
...bodyguards, and Gian Paolo Sanino, the scientist who leads the ecotours, wrote Chile's new law on whale and dolphin watching. His payoff? He gets to conduct baseline research in an area where very little cetacean research has been done. "We always complain the private sector doesn't sponsor science," says Sanino. "Now they...
...bill, which awaits Governor Tim Kaine’s signature, is a response to a wave of suicides that have plagued Virginia campuses. The measure’s sponsor, Albert C. Eisenberg, claims that the legislation will force universities to offer proper care, yet while the proposal is clearly well-intentioned, placing restrictions on universities’ reactions to mental health crises puts an undo strain on medical resources, and ultimately hurts the very people it intends...
...wine drinking grows more mainstream and the NASCAR demographic gets more upscale, the two will inevitably intersect. Ravenswood Winery in Sonoma is banking on it so much that this year they will be the primary sponsor for the No. 27 Ford in three races, which means the car will be painted to look like sloshing wine going 200 miles per hour. The slogan: No Wimpy Wines. To core racing fans who are more partial to beer, that may be hard to believe - and too much to swallow...
...that might accompany consideration of the newspaper legislation. “I know this is sort of a testy issue, but I think we can get through it...politely,” he said. Even before Petersen’s comment, Soren Rosier ’10, a key sponsor of the newspaper bill, said he was well aware that there would be opposition. According to Rosier, the newspaper plan—which originally called for a UC allocation of $1,700 to purchase copies of the Times for dining halls—had received enough votes in the weekly...