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...admirers who packed into Dudley House Common room last night soaked in a multimedia tour of the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon River and the Olympic Games...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, | Title: Art Exhibit Celebrating Liberty Opens in Dudley House | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...paintings depict scenes such as the Amazon River and Galapagos Islands and concepts such as social injustice in abstract form...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, | Title: Art Exhibit Celebrating Liberty Opens in Dudley House | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GALA AT GUNPOINT | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...idea that girls don't like computers, don't use them and are not getting the skills they need is not true at our house with its three girls! I like to go on the Internet with my mom. I'd rather have software I can learn from, like Amazon Trail, Treasure Math Storm and all the Carmen Sandiegos. Unless I want to be a fashion designer, which I don't, Barbie Fashion Designer won't help me. MARCY CAMERON, age 11 Palisade, Colorado Via E-mail

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Much like the Ecuadorian Amazon, the area of Burma across which the pipelines cut is biologically rich and home to many disenfranchised ethnic minority groups. The Tenasserim rain forest is the largest intact rain forest in southeast Asia, home to such endangered species as the white rhinoceros and the tiger. Texaco's track record in Ecuador demonstrates that the corporation is not likely to be a good environmental steward; no independent environmental impact assessments have been conducted in the pipeline region...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texaco Is No Innocent Abroad | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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