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...border are by outboard-powered dug-out. The going is slow but the pace affords fine views of the delta at its most pristine. The thick jungle harbors flocks of parrots, egrets and electric-blue kingfishers, while the banks are lined with tree roots twisted by monsoon floods into banyan shapes...
Hollywood, in fact, has recently discovered Cambodia as one of the world's most exotic backdrops. The Angelina Jolie-vehicle Tomb Raider shot scenes in the magnificence of Angkor Wat last year, and Matt Dillon will begin filming Beneath the Banyan Tree in mid-February, which will mark his debut as a director. But Hollywood brings in all the talent and equipment it needs, and only has to do location filming in Cambodia's arduous conditions. Cambodian filmmakers hardly have that luxury...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was reminiscing about her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, some years ago. "People say he was like the banyan tree: nothing and nobody grew in his shadow," she mused. "They are wrong. He was like the sun, and let everything and everybody grow -- even the weeds, let us be honest." It was vintage Indira, who would have denied there was a Nehru dynasty even as she came to symbolize...
...highways are clear, and only 400 of the island's 8,500 rooms are still out of service. The conference rooms and lobby of the 570-room Condado Plaza have new windows, carpeting, light fixtures and furniture. Tree surgeons at the El San Juan are nursing the trademark poolside banyan tree back to life; the hotel even gained an extra 10 ft. of beach...
Though highly effective at raising consciousness and making converts, this is not an easy or a cheap way to run a zoo. At the Tiger River exhibit in San Diego, that lovely gushing waterfall is part of a 72,000-gal. computerized irrigation system. A huge banyan tree has heating coils in its roots to encourage the python to uncoil near the viewing glass. Not far away, an agile cliff-springer mountain goat is contained on the assumption that it will not jump eight feet to a ledge on the moat's far side that is constructed at a precise...