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...Australia), the fate of his boyhood likeness underscores his, and America's, growing image problem across Asia. Soon after Jakarta city workers used the cover of darkness to relocate the young Barry's statue, top U.S. diplomatic envoys were in Beijing to repair foundering relations with the world's third largest economy. Meanwhile, Japan, the world's No. 2 economy, has been calling for a more "equal" (read: less submissive) relationship with the U.S. That's because the Democratic Party of Japan, which came to power last year for only the second time in half a century, won votes...
...Along with habitat loss, the apes face threats from human population growth and a surge in the bush-meat trade - locals and organized traders killing wildlife to eat and sell - along with the spread of the Ebola virus, estimated to have killed about a third of the world's gorillas in the past 15 years. (Read why Ebola is killing gorillas...
...Pamela A. Silver, co-author of the study and professor of systems biology at HMS. “Ideally you could have an organism that you could program to make anything you wanted using only sunlight—you could use it, for example, to provide energy for the third world...
...also cited the deaths of children in Third World countries as a symptom of the financial recession...
Addressing a packed room of students and Cambridge locals at the Radcliffe Gymnasium last night, Levitt spoke about his path from opening week of his Harvard freshman year to becoming one of Time Magazine’s 100 People Who Shape Our World. He was the third of four speaker’s in the 2009-10 Dean’s Lecture Series, a program of the Radcliffe Institute’s Academic Engagement Programs...