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...strong ties to Africa - he was born in Nice in 1940, but his family history on both sides leads back to Mauritius, an island about 500 miles east of Madagascar that has been best known in the West, at least until now, as the home of the famously extinct dodo. The son of a doctor, Le Clézio grew up in France and Nigeria speaking French and English. He began writing at the age of 8 - one of his childhood efforts, composed on a long voyage to Nigeria, contains a list of his forthcoming works. His family traveled prodigiously...
...List, however, isn't a death sentence - careful conservation work can bring back species from the brink of extinction. The black-footed ferret in the western U.S. was believed to be extinct in the wild - meaning it was only found in captivity - until it was successfully reintroduced into the wild by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service between 1991 and 2008. Conservationists did the same work in Mongolia, where they successfully reintroduced wild horse to the steppes of Central Asia. And new techniques - like selling the carbon sequestered in standing forests as a way to fight climate change - offer...
...taxpayers and homeowners--but mostly staying out of the way. He didn't really act like a leader, but he doesn't hold a leadership position, and so far voters seem to appreciate his cool response. While Washington Mutual and Wachovia were disappearing and investment banks were going extinct overnight, Obama was pulling ahead in the polls...
...agreed that it wasn't a "game-changer." You did miss the largest bank failure in American history, not to mention a $25 billion bailout of the auto industry, but that's chump change these days, right? You might not have heard that investment banks are now officially extinct, but basically the economy is on the same precipice it was on last week...
When Gen Ed officially launches next fall, counting new Gen Ed classes for Core credit will be crucial to making sure that the Class of 2012 has enough flexibility as the last class to graduate under a soon-to-be-extinct curriculum...