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Raphael will travel to the Ecuadorian Amazon in August or September to assist in remote public health education initiatives...
...cell phone for $355 and getting $510 for his TRS-80 computer. Geek love ran wild when Mitnick's prison ID card went up for sale; that's when eBay decided there might be some legal issues here. After the site stopped the auction and Yahoo and Amazon also refused to participate, Mitnick found a willing auctioneer in dutchbid.com where six bidders have moved the card's price to $2,010. Coincidentally, Amazon's site crashed on Thursday...
...read your interesting article on the road-building project in the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16], and though I would not deny that human penetration of the rain forest is a major cause of fires, people need to realize that the Amazon is a rich undeveloped area. There are millions of people living in rural Brazil, where slash-and-burn agriculture could be prevented if farmers had economic alternatives. Brazil may wisely use the Amazon rain forest to increase the living standards of millions. So long as we respect the environment, I don't see any reason we shouldn...
...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...
...What the weather focus does do is reinforce the notion that the election is so close you can't dare change that channel - so close a butterfly flapping its wing in the Amazon jungle could throw Oregon to Bush! Which of course may actually be true this time, but besides driving up ratings, it provides yet more butt-coverage for any unfortunate earlier prognostications. (Last night, many of the pundits were practically giving the election to Bush. If they're proved wrong, they could always blame it on the balmy weather in Miami.) And, during the downtime when polls...