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...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City...
...America." It was not necessarily a reassuring thought, for America seemed very strange to its first European settlers, particularly the Puritans in New England. To them, its rocky coast and tangled woods were--in the expressive phrase used by one of them--"the Lord's waste," an unowned biblical desert full of strange beasts and savage half-men. However, although America produced no significant landscape painting or religious art during the 17th or 18th century, by the mid-19th century, landscape was the national religious symbol...
That doesn't mean we can't complain about it. "Money doesn't go as far as it used to," says Sandra Ambrookian, 43, a medical-supply saleswoman from Milwaukee. She's relaxing in L.A. after a vacation in Palm Desert, Calif. Drinking with her is lawyer David Adelman, 41, divorced and in debt but looking great. "I think people are pretty good at hiding the fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows...
Weil rather enjoys his role as epistolary medicine man and most times would be perfectly content to spend his days answering his mail, writing his books and rarely leaving his desert redoubt, which he shares with his wife, their five-year-old daughter and his wife's three children by her first marriage. "I'm rather shy," Weil says. "If I had my druthers, I'd do most of my work without ever leaving home...
JEFFREY KLUGER flew to Tucson and drove 35 miles along rough, rutted roads to a remote corner of the Arizona desert to interview America's most visible health guru, Dr. Andrew Weil, for this week's cover story. Kluger, who joined TIME's science staff last August, toured Weil's home, a converted horse stable, and found Weil to be energetic, engaging and quite sincere in his belief that he is helping improve America's health. Weil faithfully follows most of his own good-health gospel, says Kluger, although like many fiftysomethings, he has a hard time keeping his weight...