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...species of frog have been identified on the island of New Guinea, but predicts the number will eventually pass 600. With frog populations worldwide under threat from habitat destruction, fungus infections and introduced predators, Richards, whose research is funded by Conservation International, believes recording the amphibians is of vital importance. "New Guinea, outside of the Amazon and some areas of central Africa, has the largest areas of rainforest left," he says. "Nobody is working there, and what's there is so spectacular...
After the program, Laura S. Malisheski, assistant director at the Office of Career Services, said that “it’s a vital topic of discussion, one that really hits a nerve among students...
Call them the show-me moms. They may be this political season's equivalent of the soccer moms or the NASCAR dads--a slice of the electorate that turns out to be vital to one party's triumph, or either's. This year strategists on both sides are focused on a small subset of females: white women over 55 in the South who were raised as Democrats but tend to be culturally conservative. The group eschews party loyalty in favor of candidates offering practical solutions to problems like education, security and health care and is "very critical," says...
...university reading lists around the globe. Even if one disputes Chomsky's analyses, few people dispute the quality of his writing, the coherence of his arguments or the depth of his research. Love him or loathe him, Chomsky and others who challenge the world's loudest voices play a vital role in maintaining pluralism, a fundamental feature of democracy...
...nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen Gervais, a health-care ethicist. This strategy "is intended to protect the most people in the most vital ways." But the panel also decided that society's weakest could and should be helped in other ways, such as quarantine...