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Protecting tigers in captivity is one thing, but the bigger challenge is restoring their numbers in the wild. Deforestation and the ballooning human populations in Asia have chased tigers out of their native habitat. Yet the health of the tiger means the health of the planet. "If there is a tiger in the forest, it's a sign that the forest and the other animals in it are healthy," says Varma. "Tigers are the face of biodiversity." Hopefully, then, 2010 will truly be the tiger's year...
...first thing we did was check how many friends (or “followers,” in Buzz lingo) we had. 29! Not bad. Then we noticed that one of them was a TF from Moral Reasoning last semester and another was Grandma's scrabble partner. Awkward. We were almost ready to take a break from Buzz when we got our first notification. It was a cousin buzzing about his intense CrossFit training and the number of “burpees” he did yesterday. TMI, we thought...
...more thing about Yale: remember that crazy admissions video of Yale’s we wrote about a couple weeks back? The one where the admissions guide randomly bursts into a rendition of “That’s Why I Chose Yale” in the middle of the info session? Of course you do. Well, Ben McGrath has written a piece in the “Talk of the Town” section of this week’s New Yorker gauging the reaction from some of Yale’s more conservative, old guard alumni. Let?...
...poor country to reach the Olympics? "In life you have a couple of opportunities and openings," the prince argues. "And one of them was that I was born in Mexico. Sure, I used it to my favor. But not in an abusive way. You try to find that little thing that makes a difference, and take advantage of them. I took advantage...
...limbo. In December, the main rebel group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), announced it had lost patience with the delay and re-started its campaign of attacks on pipelines and installations and kidnappings of Western oil workers. A few thousand gunmen with a thing for shades, bandoliers and fast boats had the global price of crude back in their crosshairs...