Word: amazonians
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...BigFoot Will Just Have To Wait For His E-mail Can't we just talk? It was the technology that was going to let us watch movies in the Amazonian rain forest and trade pork-belly futures while hanging from Mount Rushmore. Third-generation mobile telecommunications, or 3G, was going to change life as we know it, starting this month in Japan. Well, it looks like we're safe, for a while at least, from video conferences with the boss while on the privy. NTT DoCoMo, the undisputed hare in the race to bring 3G to market, announced last week...
...silk-satin Inaugural gown--nine research centers and the National Zoo. Unlike his predecessors, however, Small is neither a scientist nor an academic. He spent 27 years at Citibank, and his last job was COO of Fannie Mae. He plays flamenco guitar and owns a world-class collection of Amazonian art, but he got the job because he knows how to raise money and crunch numbers. His mission was to put the world's largest museum complex on a sound financial footing...
...History museum, past the Science Center on Oxford Street. Anyone who has ever been asked to spin a convincing argument from difficult material will appreciate the glassblowers' unbelievable skill in crafting plants from silicon. These are not the kind of flowers one might bring as a gift; they're Amazonian plants, butterflies, beetles, vegetables, stalks, grass, all startlingly lifelike...
...defensive and defiant about criticism of Brazil?s failure to protect the Amazon; last June, by contrast, an outpouring of popular protest forced the Brazilian Congress to drop a plan to reduce from 80% to 50% the amount of forest to be set aside as nature preserves in future Amazonian development projects. Among the most vocal opponents of the rollback was Jos? Sarney Filho, the federal Environment Minister and son of the pro-development former President. In Acre, the frontier state where environmental martyr Chico Mendes was assassinated in 1988 by ranchers angered by his efforts to halt deforestation, change...
Three years ago, an Indian from the Amazonian backwaters arrived at the house in Manaus, Brazil, of biologist Marc van Roosmalen holding a tin can with a little monkey shivering inside. "'Oh, no. Not another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...