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...however, some daring naturalists are starting to suggest that just as a smashed vase can be pieced back together and a war-torn cathedral reconstructed stone by stone, so too the battered remnants of natural masterpieces -- bogs and fens, forests and prairies, deserts and coral reefs -- may eventually be restored to some semblance of former glory. In at least a few spots around the globe, the dreamers say, humanity may be able to go back to Eden...
...nothing from outside. Dubbed Biosphere 2 (the earth is Biosphere 1), the glass-and-steel-enclosed structure has been seeded with 3,800 species of plants and animals in five different wilderness ecosystems: a desert, savannah, rain forest, marsh and 7.6-m-deep (25-ft.-deep) "ocean" complete with coral reef. The experiment, seven years and $100 million in the making, has been hailed as the most exciting scientific project since the effort to put man on the moon...
...island nation of Papua New Guinea, in the Coral Sea, jobless people returning to highland villages from the cities often lack the most rudimentary knowledge necessary to survive, such as which rot-resistant trees to use to build huts or which poisonous woods to avoid when making fires for cooking. Many of the youths, alienated from their villages by schooling and exposure to the West, become marauding "rascals," who have made Papua New Guinea's cities among the most dangerous in the world...
Chef Douglas Rodriguez, at Yuca in Coral Gables, harks back to his Cuban- American roots in adding to the new vocabulary. One recent dinner featured teeny tamales stuffed with foie gras and duck confit; yellowtail snapper encrusted with a mix of avocado, stone-crab meat and crushed peanuts; and loin of pork filled with chorizo and smoked over guava bark. "Guava bark!" he says. "Who else is doing that?" More and more talented Floridians, happily, every...
Belize has rain forest, jaguars, waterfalls, toucans and, after Australia's, the largest coral barrier reef in the world. It was also one of the great centers of Mayan civilization. Ruins -- still largely unrestored, insufficiently studied and besieged by tomb robbers -- dot the lowland forests: the pyramids of Xunantunich and Altun Ha and the vast complex of Caracol, which in the 6th to 7th centuries was the rival of Tikal, across the Guatemalan border...