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Surprised by the pervasiveness of domestic violence against teenagers in the U.S., Ding in 1996 founded Friends and Shelter for Teens (FAST), the nation's first teen-founded and teen-run domestic violence prevention program...
...Diane E. Smith, a Cronkhite resident who is enrolled in a one-year masters program at the Graduate School of Education, said the students' objections to the renovations were more about preserving the future of a vibrant community than concern for themselves...
Marker, 45, first encountered cheetahs 25 years ago; they were in captivity at the Oregon wildlife park where she worked. Over the years she developed a successful cheetah breeding program. In the 1980s Marker made several trips to Namibia, where she began to use a cheetah she had raised in Oregon, named Khayam, to study the possibility of returning the cats to the wild. Although the animal hunted and killed by instinct, without the 18 to 22 months of training that a young cheetah gets from its mother, Khayam couldn't learn how to survive...
That was the thinking behind the launching of the most ambitious study of global ecosystems ever undertaken. In September, at a special millennial session of the U.N., four of its agencies and partners--the World Bank, the U.N. Development Program, the U.N. Environment Program and the World Resources Institute--will present the first results of this project, a Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems. The findings of the $4 million study, called PAGE for short, will be published in the 2000-01 edition of the World Resources Report titled People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life. PAGE will also...
What really distinguishes PAGE is its approach. It's significant that two of the sponsoring agencies--the U.N. Development Program and the World Bank--deal primarily with economic development. Their participation acknowledges an inescapable fact: economies cannot remain forever healthy in an unhealthy environment. PAGE looks at the natural world in a new way: not just as a beautiful place that should be preserved for aesthetic or moral reasons but also as an economic asset that delivers irreplaceable goods and services. Ecosystems temper climate, purify and store water, recycle wastes, produce food and support all the other things that make...