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...Leroy Vail, professor of history and Harvard's senior historian of Africa, died on March 27. He was 55 years...
...Vail was known for his work promoting African history within Harvard's History department...
...Vail advocated for the recruitment of graduate students from Africa to study history at Harvard...
Colleagues said Vail valued the responsibility of teaching students...
...profit by selling. So the farmers and ranchers who feel squeezed out when tract housing plunks down next to their pasture often think about cashing in. "You get people waving millions," says Ben Wurtsmith, 67, a rancher in Colorado's Eagle County, not far from the exploding area around Vail. "Some days you just think about taking the money and taking off." One way to solve the problem, being used in parts of Colorado, is "development rights," which let builders put up houses more densely near town in exchange for payments to outlying farmers and ranchers to keep land open...