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Like an insect version of Genghis Khan, the fierce Brazilian bees are coming. Millions of them are swarming northward from the Amazon basin at the rate of 200 miles a year, liquidating passive colonies of native bees in their path, quick to sting-and sometimes kill-any unwary animal or person. At their present rate they will conquer all of South America in the next ten years, and start to invade Central America. Unless stopped by man, the bees will eventually invade Mexico and the southern...
...qualities of European bees, while keeping the African strain's viciousness and wanderlust. As a result, according to a report recently released jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, they have taken over an area from Argentina's temperate pampas to the Amazon's tropical forests...
...this week's cover story. Anderson, based in our Rio de Janeiro bureau, accompanied Wilson on a swing through Brazil in search of new motel sites. Beginning as early as 4 a.m., Wilson, with Anderson in tow, visited with local officials, toured local marketplaces and even traveled the Amazon. "I had been warned about his pace," says Anderson, who is 29. "But I still wasn't ready for it. He worked constantly except for catnaps, and after a while I couldn't believe he was 30 years older than I." After dawn-to-dusk days in search...
Charles Kemmons Wilson, 59, founder and chairman of Holiday Inns, Inc., was doing what he likes best: scouting new locations for the world's largest and fastest-growing lodging chain. Wherever he may be-paddling down the Amazon in a canoe, riding along the Riviera in a Mercedes or poring over maps in his computer-crammed headquarters at Memphis-Kemmons Wilson is always seeking new sites. "Looking for land," he says, "is like going on an Easter egg hunt, and sometimes you find the golden...
...Moyne de Morgues. Le Moyne, a French artist who worked in England in the 16th century, voyaged to Florida in the early 1560s. There he saw Indians-and concluded that there had to be a likeness between them and the lost tribes of primitive Britain. Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped out of a court masque. Her tribal body painting is transmuted into an exquisite damask of skin tattoos; every detail of Le Moyne's image, from the green, parklike landscape and the rippling blonde hair to the jaunty flutter of tassel and petal, adds...