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...that the animal is functionally extinct," says August Pfluger, head of the Zurich-based Baiji.org Foundation, which in December co-sponsored a six-week, 2,000-mile (3,500-km) survey of the Yangtze without finding a single remaining member of the critically endangered species. The dolphin, one of only four exclusively freshwater species in the world, may have the unhappy distinction of being the first aquatic mammal to go extinct in more than half a century - and the first large mammal driven into oblivion by environmental degradation...
...Chanda's essential ideas - that globalization has been a gradual historical process and that we are connected to the past - are hardly the stuff of dazzling scholarly insight. But his encyclopedic survey of the forces and events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by lively anecdotes - of catamarans plying Polynesian seas, of Catholic converts in Mexico bearing icons made in Macau of missionaries martyred in Japan, and of the armless boy in an Indian trade delegation who awed imperial Rome by shooting arrows with his toes...
...recent survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) “Project on the Public and Biological Survey” highlights the inadequacies of hurricane preparedness in eight states with high hurricane risk counties...
Over 30 percent of residents said that they would not leave if government officials said they had to evacuate due to a major hurricane. In a similar survey conducted in 2006, only 23 percent of people said they would not evacuate. The study, which the HSPH developed in consultation with government and Red Cross officials, was designed to assess problems residents had during past hurricanes and attitudes towards upcoming emergencies...
...leave said they believed they’d be safe in their home, while 56 percent worried about crowded roads and over a third felt that evacuating would be dangerous. Blendon said that evacuation is even more critical for residents of mobile homes, despite the fact that one survey question revealed that one in four people living in mobile homes within 20 miles of the ocean said they would refuse to leave...