This information will be reported over the Internet to Cornell University researchers, who will analyze the data to determine what, if any, environmental factors contribute to nesting success. The new medical college will offer a complete medical education in Qatar leading to a Cornell University M.D. degree, based on the same admission standards and curriculum as the New York campus. Cornell's new medical college is the latest of several ambitious projects initiated by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development, a charitable foundation established in 1995 by Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar's Emir and Head of State. During the past six years, the foundation has redefined the standards of quality for education in the Gulf region by building prestigious, high-quality primary and secondary schools in Qatar. Conventional wisdom answers yes, believing that equatorial and tropical regions have far more tree biomass than places like North America, Europe and Asia.
Conventional wisdom seems to be wrong.
In 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring , a pioneering exposure of the hazards of the pesticide DDT, became one of the most influential books in the history of science and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. But the book had modest sales. In 1980, Carl Sagan's book Cosmos , an overview of how science and civilization grew up together, based on his television series of the same name, sold 900,000 copies in its 50 weeks on the Publishers Weekly best-seller list, phenomenal for a science book in its time. Up to now, most biologists have studied the molecules of life in test tubes, watching how large numbers of them behave. Cornell University and Harvard Medical School are collaborating to decipher the structures of proteins associated with human cancers.