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...opening of the Houses and the start of classes. This change was a welcome one for many students who found the early move-in more convenient. Yet administrators were undoubtedly concerned that students would take advantage of a week without responsibilities to move back en masse or to throw wild parties. The University Housing Office website dissuaded students from returning early by noting that private parties would not be allowed and that the dining halls would not be open...
BEATING DEET While cats may be wild about catnip, mosquitoes seem to hate it. Nepetalactone, its fragrant essential oil, turns out to be 10 times as effective as DEET, the chemical in most commercial bug repellents. Two years ago, the same researchers showed that Nepetalactone was repugnant to cockroaches...
...method, however, breeding pandas is tricky; of the 200 pandas born in captivity since the 1960s, less than half have made it to adulthood. Says Yu Changqing, panda program coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Beijing: "Our focus should be on increasing the number of pandas in the wild...
...were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India's western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning...
...last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side of 60, it was harder than we had expected...