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...type departments is not insignificant: according to various estimates, only about 1.5 million species out of about 23 million are even partially described. These discoveries have important practical applications as well, for they are central to pressing political issues (global climate change) and medical research (e.g., the tree extract documented at the Herbaria, Calophyllum, that may prove effective against AIDS). If Harvard allows its ability to play a role in such important questions about our place on this planet to tarnish, its reputation will surely, and quickly, do the same...
...ever increasing number of tourists will be able to join the fun. Up the coast a few miles from the Burj, Dubai is creating a massive complex of hotels and condos called the Palm on a man-made island in the shape of?no joking?a giant palm tree. Another ambitious resort named the World is being constructed on another man-made island in the form of?naturally?a map of the world. Recently Sheik Mohammed announced plans for Dubailand, a $4.9 billion megaproject that will include the Mall of Arabia, and theme parks called Adventure World, Sports World...
...schnitzel, not a single legislator approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern mortgages and loans tied to the farm...
...made life bearable for many years. Mahafuzur Rahaman Bahar, a member of the Bangladesh Truck Drivers' Union, says drivers once operated according to a "token" scheme. By paying a fixed sum to the first extortionist they encountered, they received a colored-paper token imprinted with the sign of a tree or a cow, which guaranteed free passage to their destination. So long as corruption operated within the defined rules of a scheme, Bangladeshis got along with their lives...
...this cramped 141-sq.-mi. enclave that shelters 1.3 million Palestinians, most of them dispossessed since being driven here in 1948. Misery is pandemic: 70% are unemployed, 80% live in poverty, and 13% of the green, arable land has been bulldozed by Israel into barren fields of splintered tree stumps. The Israeli army said the trees hid militants when they fired rockets on the settlement. But the farmers of Beit Hanoun see a more cynical motive. "They do it," said one, "to break our will...