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...love with baseball at the start of an era of pure delight for New York fans," she writes. "What a storied lineup my Dodgers had in the postwar seasons: Roy Campanella started behind the plate, Gil Hodges at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Pee Wee Reese at short, Billy Cox at third, Gene Hermanski in left, Duke Snider in center, and Carl Furillo in right...Never would there be a better time to be a Dodger...
...during this period that the villagers informed Cox that they wanted to name him heir to the goddess Nafanua. When he declined, fearing that the title would interfere with his research, the villagers refused to sign the preservation agreement. Cox relented. "Being a deity is not my cup of tea," he says, "but Nafanua stands for conservation and rain-forest ecology, so I said to them, 'O.K., I'll take the cards I've been dealt.'" Now chiefs and children alike respectfully address him as Nafanua...
...result of this work, Cox and a chief who helped him shared one of the six prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes for 1997. Each received $37,500. Since then Cox has expanded his preservation efforts by establishing the Seacology Foundation, based at Brigham Young. Some of the foundation's funding comes through Cox's ethnobotanical success with medicinally, or in this case cosmetically, valuable plants. When Nu Skin International, a Utah-based personal-care company, wanted to hire Cox as a consultant, he charged a $40,000 fee that he plowed into the foundation. He also asked Nu Skin and Nature...
...forest. Administered by villagers, the aerial complex has brought in about $1,000 a month from tourists and school groups since it opened, profit that the villagers use to maintain the forest. "This is the first time these people have made money from the forest without destroying it," says Cox. "If they keep making this kind of money and other villages hear about it, the forests will be saved...
...Cox dreams that one day soon the people of Western Samoa will see the benefit of preserving not only the rain forests surrounding their villages but also the vast cloud forests that still cloak the sides of the volcanoes that form the spine of Savai'i. Here he hopes the villagers will agree to "make the biggest national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through...