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...villagers agree to join COMACO, they aren't allowed to poach, and they pledge to protect the land, eschewing slash-and-burn farming techniques. COMACO checks up on its members - villages that see elevated poaching rates, or evidence of erosion, earn visits from Lewis's staff. "If you do certain things, we'll provide certain things," says Lewis. "We work together, and see if we're all better...
...currently have 15 different standards, but they need to be more consistent because the law is the same everywhere,” said Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson. “We wanted to align Houses to fit within certain parameters...
...privation, corruption, rights abuse and social stratification, Chettri's depiction is one that holds enduring relevance for many Nepalis. They are, of course, his intended readership, but that means that the local color Chettri paints with can sometimes be disorienting, if not frustratingly inaccessible, for a foreign reader. Certain domestic images are familiarly rustic - there are granaries and millstones, and whitewashed homes with butter churns, milk pails, earthen hearths and chaff-filled pillows. But other features, particularly indigenous flora, are harder to visualize, even with translator Michael J. Hutt's detailed endnotes. Bhorla, angeri leaves, chilaune trees - without an illustrated...
...worth a rational person’s time. Leading up to the 2000 election, Democrats chanted to would-be Green Party supporters the refrain that a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for Bush. Losing the White House ingrained a powerful message in the consciousness of a certain group of environmental-leaning liberals: Your party hurts America, so either conform, or get out of politics. This likely contributed to the Green Party’s decline in popularity since 2000. What is troubling is that dwindling support for third parties feeds on itself. The choice not to waste...
...dealings with study abroad companies obvious and transparent to students who utilize the office’s services. When forming their study abroad plans, students should be confident that the OIP’s primary concern is the quality of students’ experiences, and not financial relationships with certain study abroad companies. In order to guarantee this, students must be made fully aware of any financial ties the OIP has to these third parties. Sometimes, the study abroad programs that the OIP recommends are far more expensive than those that students individually plan with foreign universities. While...