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...identified 136 potential sites involving 98 countries. South Africa is discussing the possibility of a Peace Park with the governments of North and South Korea. It would sit astride the demilitarized zone that separates those two longtime enemies - an area where animals such as the endangered Siberian tiger and Amur leopard are known to exist. Van Riet says there is some interest in the idea at the U.S. Defense Department. If the generals of the Pentagon and their counterparts in the two Koreas are as wise as the tiger and the leopard, then peace may have a chance...
...frozen winter night on russia's far eastern edge, Pavel Fomenko and a truckload of comrades are cruising slowly, headlights off, down an ice-covered riverbed. Under a full moon, Fomenko has seen the giant paw prints of the Amur tiger, more widely known as the Siberian tiger. But he is not hunting the striped cat; he's hunting the hunters. Working for the World Wildlife Fund in cooperation with Russian authorities, he is leading an anti-poaching patrol, going after criminals who try to profit from killing one of the world's most magnificent--and endangered--creatures. Telltale tire...
...Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater where spit freezes before it hits the ground, and an escaped prisoner is found sitting frozen in a tree, their real world is Belmondo's fantasy Paris, and their real loves are the miniskirted nymphets...
...trees could talk, the old Amur cork tree at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum might have made it through another New England winter...
...fact, the name amurense is derived from the fact that it originates in the Amur River valley in Manchuria, host to harsh winters...