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This year's Pudding show will be "Jungle Belles," an Amazon satire of the Greek play "Lysistrata...
Davis has sent samples of the zombie potion to laboratories in Europe and the U.S., where in one experiment it induced a trancelike state in rats. Such research in the past led to the discovery of curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave...
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, comes down through history books with a vague him of some physical distinction; like an Amazon of old, she transcended generally accepted assumptions about female weakness. A different level of respect is reserved for, say, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female American doctor, whose triumph lay in disproving social assumptions rather than simply surpassing them. Nor is it socially acceptable nowadays to praise Margaret Thatcher for capabilities beyond those of the ordinary woman...
Brazil is still a country rich in resources. Since the mid-1970s, huge new deposits of iron, manganese, nickel, copper, bauxite and gold have been discovered deep in the Amazon basin. To exploit this mineral wealth, the Brazilians have launched a mammoth development scheme, called the Carajas Project, that includes dozens of mines, a 550-mile railroad and a giant dam on an arm of the Amazon, all to be completed by 1990. The cost will be staggering: $61 billion. But the eventual income from the project, estimated at $14.6 billion annually, may be worth the initial expense...
Garcia Márquez's success and critical reputation have undoubtedly boosted the fortunes of younger Latin authors like Brazil's Marcio Souza (Emperor of the Amazon), Colombia's Jaime Manrique (Colombian Gold) and Argentina's Manuel Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman). Notes New York Translator and Agent Thomas Colchie: "In 1979, Souza sold Emperor of the Amazon for only $2,000. His forthcoming book, Mad Maria, went for $5,000, and his third has just been signed for $10,000." Colchie adds that Armando Valladares, the Cuban poet who was recently released after...