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...tigers. They surveyed eight reserves in seven provinces over 18 months, set up hundreds of camera traps and investigated reports of any sighting - but found none. It was the first documented case of a tiger subspecies disappearing from the wild since the Javan tiger did so in the 1970s. Western colleagues cautioned Tilson that his gloomy conclusion would irritate the SFA. "They were right," he says, laughing. "It really irritated them. I was pretty much shunned for almost two years...
...night of Sept. 21 last year, U.S. diplomatic staff in South Africa were telephoned at home and told not to go to work the next day. A State Department official refused to explain the warning, but a Western intelligence officer in Africa told TIME the alarm was raised after a phone call from an al-Qaeda operative to a number in Cape Town was intercepted - a call in which an attack on U.S. government buildings in South Africa was discussed. No attack took place, and after three days, the embassy in Pretoria and three consulates reopened. But with South Africa...
...indoor rink is located on 168 Western Ave, just behind the Business School. It’s just a super-short and easy ride on the 66 bus from Harvard Square Station. Or you can take the Quad shuttle to the stadium and finish with a short walk. If you’re feeling extra sporty, it’s a beautiful stroll along the Charles...
...petrol, and several stores visited by TIME had empty shelves. The President took to the airwaves to appeal for calm, and in Santiago at least, the population seems to be following her advice. But no society is without tensions, and in the barrio of Maipú, on the western edge of Santiago, the city's underclass was feeling much more agitated. As Peter Murphy Lewis, a lecturer in political science at the University of Chile (and my translator in Maipú) put it, "Living through a big earthquake in Santiago makes you realize that Chile is a first-world country...
...Saif was also blunt in criticizing Libyan officials who send mixed messages to the West, proclaiming the country a new ally and business partner of Europe and the United States, yet then resisting Western values. "Part of the problem is with the Libyan side. It's not enough for us to blame others," he says. "We are not serious enough, we are sending confusing messages." Sighing deeply, he said: "I think we are not ready to deal in the right way with the Western world, because they have different rules of the game...