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...employs around 17,000 peacekeepers in the Congo - the largest force of its kind worldwide. In the meantime, conservationists say they will wait to see if there will be another cease-fire - a possible window of opportunity for the rangers to go in and check on the animals' status...
...came from, where we are going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions. But the search for meaning is a never-ending quest that is always interpreting, always interrupting and redefining the status quo, always looking, never content with what is found. An answer simply yields the next question. This is in fact true of all learning, of the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities, and thus of the very core of what universities are about...
...academic journals. Peer review, however, rests on a complex underlying system. Our journals review nearly 50,000 papers every year, with help from some tens of thousands of distinct referees. Managing this requires large and sophisticated electronic resources (databases of referees, their areas of expertise and current assignments, the status of papers under review, etc.), associated support personnel, and many paid full- and part-time editors, nearly all Ph.D. physicists (more than 150 at present). Most of our editorial processes are already entirely electronic, and their costs would not decrease under open access...
...people who grow it.SHOW YOUR SAVVYEven if you’re just going out to eat, you can still take an active role in your eating education. Asking whether fish, fruit, or vegetables are fresh isn’t only a good way to show off your foodie status to your friends; it also provides a chance to learn about where your meal comes from (though it’s unlikely any waiter worth his salt will confide that the trout has actually been sitting in the kitchen for several days).Finally, don’t neglect the important task...
...reason for his cult status as an architecture critic was not the clarity of Herbert Muschamp's prose, which was known to irk readers with its effusive, stream-of-consciousness style. Instead, by freely celebrating the emotional impact of skyscrapers and other structures, the author and longtime New York Times critic changed the way people think about architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress...