Word: diane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Familiar as the scene is, Vedder--a conservationist who began studying gorillas in Rwanda in 1978 with Dian Fossey--can't help noticing that it's also a bit surreal. For one thing, she's standing behind a wall of thick, protective glass. For another, she is not actually visiting the gorillas' home range; rather, they're visiting hers. Just to the west, after all, stands Yankee Stadium. Next to that is a subway station for the IRT line that runs straight into Manhattan...
...visitors. Until his death in 1972, Louis visited occasionally but spent most of his time traveling around the world, lecturing and raising funds to support an ever expanding list of research projects. Most notable were the field studies he launched of the living great apes: Jane Goodall's chimps, Dian Fossey's gorillas and Birute Galdikas' orangs...
...mundane. "They took a lot of very good gear, rain jackets, boots, backpacks," says a Nairobi diplomat. "These guys were wearing old jeans and T shirts. They were very happy, very excited with what they got." Gorilla-watching expeditions to remote preserves were once limited to the likes of Dian Fossey, the American researcher who lived for 18 years in the Rwandan forests before her murder in 1985. But adventure-holiday companies now take thrill-seeking vacationers into the jungles too. Escorted only by lightly armed rangers, the tourists are easy prey for the poor rebels...
...into the bed, tie you down, rape you, shoot you and bury you." The terrified woman on the videotape hesitated, then spoke softly. "I'll go along with whatever you want." The voice continued: "Stand up, Kathi... Undress for us." Several jurors squirmed as she complied. In the courtroom Dian Allen wept quietly, knowing that her sister Kathleen was later killed anyway. But as painful as the tape was to watch, there were times when she feared it would never be shown in a courtroom...
...game show hosts, displaying super-human endurance with his 26 year stint on "The Price is Right." Fast approaching 80 years of age, Barker, who spends rerun seasons in a giant jar of formaldehyde, has also persevered through a publicity nightmare stemming from an affair with show model Dian Parkinson...