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...example, conservationists cite Bolivia, which has an estimated 500 hyacinth macaws. In 1980-81 Bolivia exported 800 of the birds, each worth up to $5,000; wildlife experts believe that most were caught in Brazil. Sudan, which has fewer than 100 white rhinos, exports scores of horns annually. Prized as an aphrodisiac in the Orient, horns fetch...
...staffers say they are dedicated to their work, and cite their growing outreach programs as evidence. As Room 13's Devere says, "The more people who know about Room 13, the better I feel...
...over, for instance, a graduate student's dissertation grade or the rank of honors she will receive--but also, of the pressures which could lead stagnating middle-aged faculty members to try to restore their self-respect with sexual power-trips. Most daring and compelling of all, the authors cite psychological theories which postulate that much of an adult's self-image is formed in high school; they then extend that observation to point out that many men intelligent enough to have chosen academia as a career were probably ostracized in high school as wimps, lost out on social life...
...story by story, as it were, rather than in one big rush. Dividends have been wrung from Pelli's calm style. The new MOMA does not creak with intrusive imagery. It does not look like an airport, a temple, a constructivist factory, a tomb or a fortress, to cite the five most popular types of recent museum. And it is blissfully free of the kind of capricious, name-dropping revivalism, the coy and schematic quotes, that some critics number among the joys of postmodernism...
Many Boston area college students have gone through the program, with Harvard and particularly Brandeis, in Waltham, leading the way. Many volunteers cite plusses ranging from witnessing the Israeli military first-hand, to meeting Israeli families, to establishing enduring friendships with people, both American and Israeli...