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...Dramatic as it was, the exchange didn?t cloud the generally upbeat view of the future voiced by most of the speakers. None of the sessions showed this positive mood more clearly than the one on the loss of species, which ecologist Thomas Lovejoy estimated was occurring at an alarming rate of 100,000 a year, mainly because of the destruction of habitat. Still, when they were asked about the future, Lovejoy and his fellow panelists, Harvard?s E.O. Wilson and Ryan Phelan of the All Species Foundation described themselves as guardedly optimistic. Said Wilson, ?The world is beginning...
...continues to send out regular collecting expeditions. Hanken himself still goes collecting in Mexico’s cloud forests...
There was another incident of ugliness in the aftermath of a WCHA game between Wisconsin and St. Cloud St. on Friday. Fighting broke out in the corner just as the benches were emptying for players to shake hands. St. Cloud’s Erin McNamara received a game disqualification, but it was later rescinded...
...Recent army reports have Muklis hiding out in the cloud-swathed mountain range that rises abruptly from the placid waters of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao. "Getting into that area is very, very difficult," says Colonel Ernesto Boac, commander of the army brigade based in Marawi. Standing in front of a topographical wall map, he points to the densely wrinkled contours along the provincial border south of the lake. "It's difficult getting human intelligence out of there, and we're not picking up radio transmissions. It's a black hole." Not just for the Philip-pines, but increasingly...
...girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus this was normal: he liked to dress up as a swan, bull, cloud or whatever when wooing the ladies.) If such godly shenanigans leave you cold, you can concentrate on a detail like landscape or jewelry, and be amazed by the different ways Titian handles it. You can look past Bacchus' right knee and enjoy the view of a far-off city...