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When Karl Ammann, a Swiss photographer crusading against the killing of wild animals for meat, first visited the region in 1996, he was looking for gorillas, hoping that the great apes still roamed its jungles. What he found surprised him. Locals had two names for the apes in their forests: the tree beaters, which stayed safe in the branches, and the lion killers, bigger, darker and so strong that they were unaffected by the poison arrows used by local hunters...
...Ammann discovered a strange skull with the dimensions of a chimpanzee's but with an odd, prominent crest like a gorilla's. Motion-detecting cameras in the forest caught what looked like immense chimpanzees, and a photograph purchased from poachers showed hunters posing with an animal estimated to be twice the size of an ordinary chimp. Ammann measured a fecal dropping three times as big as chimp dung and footprints as large as or larger than a gorilla...
...those of any other President. He made not only his country but also the rest of the Western world feel strong and optimistic again. His wonderful sense of humor filled our hearts with joy and glory. Let's hope his star shines for a very long time. Daniel C. Ammann Zurich I would like to offer my most sincere condolences to the American people and to convey my deepest sadness on the death of President Reagan. The world has lost one of the greatest, most stimulating human beings of the past century. It is such a pity that this...
...those of any other President. He made not only his country but also the rest of the Western world feel strong and optimistic again. His wonderful sense of humor filled our hearts with joy and glory. Let's hope his star shines for a very long time. Daniel C. Ammann Zurich...
...Andy Warhol, Schnabel, now 52, shot to youthful fame in the late '70s with his signature "plate paintings," in which broken crockery is embedded on a painted canvas, then painted some more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided as the "Sylvester Stallone" of painting (TIME critic Robert Hughes). But he conquered the market with price tags of $300,000 and beyond, and captured his share of limelight as well. In the '90s, as painting took a cyclical downturn, Schnabel veered off into filmmaking, and even...