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...around. Primates are certainly crucial to the global food chain, but as Nadler says, it's hard to know what would happen to the larger environment if a few lemur species on Madagascar died off tomorrow - and it's a question that scientists have been working for decades to avoid having to answer. In the last 50 years, only a few primates have been lost to extinction, but some worry the worst is yet to come. "The great fear is that we've been holding back the tide," says Dr. Richard Wrangham, president of the International Primatological Society...
...However, while opponents may want to avoid crossing paths with MacDonald on the ice, during practice he’s proved to be eminently approachable. Last season, he and the other blueliners pitched in to help freshmen defensemen Brian McCafferty and Jack Christian adjust to college hockey...
...Friday night, celebration of “the porcelain god” is something keg-tapping college students try hard to avoid. Not so at the Adams House Pool Theatre, where this weekend’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Urinetown” unabashedly paid homage to all things toilet-related...
...part, Washington wants to avoid being compelled to intervene between two friends. And, on Sunday, a U.S. diplomatic push led to the release of eight Turkish soldiers held captive by the PKK in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdish leaders said they had played a role in the release...
...leaders in northern Iraq, who nominally control the region from which the PKK is operating, to crack down on the guerrillas. A failure to do so could lead Turkey to send its own troops across the border in pursuit of the PKK, an outcome that the U.S. wants to avoid not only because Iraq is ostensibly America's ally as well but because the Iraqi Kurds are that war-torn nation's only economic success story. Any large-scale movement of Turkish troops into Iraq raises the chances of a clash not just with the PKK but with Iraqi Kurdish...