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Conservationists will also have to strike that kind of bargain with the world's governments if they hope to preserve threatened species. But the face-off between environment and development has been a perennial battle - and perhaps, for primate conservationists, an unwinnable one - given that the countries that are home to highly endangered primates, like Vietnam, are also home to developing economies. That's a discouraging reality for primatologists and for the grey-shanked douc, whose forest habitat in Vietnam is being destroyed at the rate of the 10,000 hectares per year to make way for logging and agriculture...
...confidence. Confidence will be in high demand if the Crimson looks to advance past the semifinals. Last year, Harvard lost to 9-4 to Brown in the semifinals of the Northern Championships. The team has a chance to redeem itself this weekend, as both teams may potentially face-off if each team wins their first-round matches. The rivalry between the two teams has been intense over the past few years, as three of their last four games have been decided by one goal—including last week’s heartbreaking, triple overtime loss. “It?...
...come across regularly these days are the two tiny dogs my tutors keep in our Winthrop entryway and the skunk that dawdles in the area between New Quincy, JFK Street, Winthrop, and Mt. Auburn. (You know who I’m talking about. He and I had a face-off just the other night outside of the Advocate.)Maybe I’m off the track to becoming a cat lady, having been pet-free for two years. But I’m pretty sure if I wanted to, that crazy coalition would take me back.–Emma...
...outsmarts or just kills most of his captors; and there are prime supporting roles for Fonda as a no-illusions bounty hunter and for Ben Foster, who's deliciously pernicious as a kill-crazy kid. But this splendidly satisfying film finds its essential heft and depth in the taut face-off between a tortured good man and a charming villain--an existential conversation, at gunpoint...
...ability to pass controversial legislation that would renew Japanese naval support for U.S. and coalition forces operating in Afghanistan. The deadline for the Afghanistan bill's passage is Nov. 1, and the opposition DPJ had declared its intention to block the law, setting up a direct face-off with the LDP - one that Abe, who liked to tout himself as a "fighting politician," apparently had no stomach for. Abe's advisers put out the word that the Prime Minister's health had been suffering - though they offered no details - but Abe's surrender just three days into a new Diet...