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Night falls early near the equator, and by 6:30 p.m. it’s dusky here in suburban Santa Ana, Costa Rica. By 10:00 p.m. it is pitch black on the main thoroughfare through the village, a road with no name and no street lamps, like every other...
Getting to the S.S.A.'s headquarters involves a four-hour trek through fields of maize and forests of dripping bamboo, led by Shan guides who stop only to flick leeches from their boots. They sneak past Thai army border posts in darkness while thunder booms off the mountains, then begin...
The gathering of sandhill cranes on and around the Moeller farm is one of nature's most spectacular rites of spring. "It is," writes Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson, "the largest concentration of any species of crane anywhere in the world." In the lifting darkness that precedes sunrise, the sandhills roosting...
Though Homer exhibitions up to now have tended to treat his watercolors as ancillary to his oils, mere preparations, it is clear from this one that Homer did not think that way himself and that he did more than any other 19th century American artist to establish watercolor as an...
The first tremors struck at 11:55 a.m. Friday. By nightfall El Salvador's capital, San Salvador (pop. 800,000), was virtually cut off from the rest of the world, plunged into darkness and littered with rubble. Though the quake, at 5.2 to 5.4 on the Richter scale, was considerably...