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Robin Lawford 1961- --Wildlife conservationist; fund-raiser for the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City...
Familiar as the scene is, Vedder--a conservationist who began studying gorillas in Rwanda in 1978 with Dian Fossey--can't help noticing that it's also a bit surreal. For one thing, she's standing behind a wall of thick, protective glass. For another, she is not actually visiting the gorillas' home range; rather, they're visiting hers. Just to the west, after all, stands Yankee Stadium. Next to that is a subway station for the IRT line that runs straight into Manhattan...
...someone love animals--cats, dogs, beasts of the field--and then shoot to death an animal as elegant as a deer or a dove? To answer the question, begin with the paradox of Teddy Roosevelt: America's greatest conservationist, creator of the national park system--and archtype Bambi killer. Roosevelt blazed away at all the animals of creation...
After speaking in Cambridge, Clinton traveled to Walden Woods, Mass. to attend the grand opening of Thoreau Institute with the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The institute, founded by singer Don Henley, is an educational facility promoting land preservation and dedicated to American author, philosopher and conservationist Henry David Thoreau, class...
...selecting victims who represented the advance of technology, he was sending a second message: Technology was destroying both itself and nature. Intrigued, the FBI asked for more, and a year before the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, Jones predicted the Unabomber would turn out to be an intellectual, a conservationist, a loner, possibly a college teacher, familiar with the work of Joseph Conrad, and would see himself as if in "a war to save the world." But Jones couldn't give the FBI a name, and all he got after the arrest was a polite note. Now a teacher at Utah...