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The ivory wars continued until 1989, when countries at the global Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to ban all trade in elephant ivory. With trade choked off, demand for ivory plummeted; African governments, with Western aid, cracked down on remaining poachers. Elephant populations in Africa...
The good news is that at the upcoming CITES summit, nations will have the chance to once more put a stop to the elephant trade. CITES is the rare international treaty with real teeth - countries that decide to defy it can face serious trade sanctions. As the experts in this...
The semi-annual date auction, put on by the Harvard Cancer Society, revealed such alluring facts about its contestants. Everything from genuine romantic desire to squirrel-related curiosities led to charitable ends, with the event bringing in just short of $1,500 in less than two hours. And with bombshells...
RWW: I had been teaching at Harvard for 19 years before I started getting engaged with the houses at all. My wife and I had just started experiencing the traditional empty nest. Our third son had gone off to college, and we were thinking about moving away from the suburbs...
RWW: Oh, similarities between chimpanzees and undergraduates, you mean? Well, chimpanzees like to show off by making a lot of noise and roaring about, and occasionally undergraduates will do the same.