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...parched landscape of Southern Iran where the desert runs into the foothills of the Zagros Mountains lives a small population of 50 to 60 Asiatic cheetahs. They are the last cheetahs outside Africa. Despite the diplomatic chill between Tehran and Washington, Iranian officials recently invited George Schaller and Luke Hunter of the WCS to come and help prevent the cats' extinction...
...nagging mother, but I always try to keep 10 steps ahead of him." Says Phelps: "We've gotten so much closer over the past few years because it's only been us. She's loosened up a bit. I guess you could say she's sort of like a chill mom." Last Christmas Phelps surprised her with a new Mercedes, and this spring he bought her diamond earrings for her birthday. Phelps is not nearly so close to his father. "I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bad relationship, but I wouldn't say it's the best relationship...
...first time in his 34-year career, Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett last week scored the top spot on the Billboard chart, with his new country-influenced album License to Chill...
...continuing Messianic funding was provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked in controversy. It is, says conservative leader the Rev. Parker Williamson, "a disjunction, almost like frying ice." But apparently even fried ice can exert a chill. --By David Van Biema
Glenn Shaw leans back against a huge fallen eucalypt, shaking his head. "I feel no need to go in," he says, black beanie pulled down low against the chill. "I'll just sit here and listen to the scrub." Wind roars in the canopy above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base...