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...quickly becoming fixtures of House life. The planners are incredibly useful for Harvard students and their million and one activities each day. Furthermore, the planners encourage dialogue about sex, mental illnesses, drugs, and gender issues. The sections in the back of the planner dedicated to these issues are thorough, containing useful information as well as people and groups to contact with questions...
...thorough and detailed list of animals that are endangered?and thus banned in all trade?already exists in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which was established in 1975. But huge profits, widespread corruption, underfunding of enforcement agencies and a lack of political will mean that the bans enacted in the treaty are often ineffective, conservationists say. "It's a very pessimistic situation," Redford says gloomily. Evidence collected by WildAid suggests that increased seizures in recent years aren't so much evidence of more vigilance by governments as a sharp growth in the trade itself. A recent study...
Crossing borders has been an arduous business since 9/11, and entering northern Sri Lanka is no different - if anything the delays are longer, the checks more thorough and the wait, outside a row of wooden sheds in a baking tropical sun, more grueling than arriving at Heathrow or JFK. In those places, of course, immigration officials are trying to keep terrorists out. Here, however, the officials are the terrorists...
...received only an 11th-hour mention of Atta that ?was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation.? Meanwhile, at Weldon?s request, House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra told TIME he is investigating the matter but cautioned against ?hyperventilating? before the completion of a ?thorough? probe...
...planet as a whole for minerals that form in the presence of water, and to determine where and how deeply subsurface ice may lie. Where there's ice and water, evidence of life - either extinct or ongoing - could also be found. While rovers like Spirit and Opportunity offer a thorough going-over of a few isolated regions, only a clear-eyed orbiter can provide a close look at the entire planet...