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...hour drive it is from each. Biking in the inviting flatlands of the Delaware countryside; bird-watching at Cape Henlopen State Park, a 4,000-acre sandy peninsula; and touring the 18th and 19th century homes are popular diversions. Ecotourism is a growing attraction as well, with whale and dolphin study boats departing Lewes regularly in warm-weather months...
...grimly compiling what I call the Hundred Heartbeat Club of animal species--those consisting of a hundred or fewer individuals, hence that number of heartbeats away from total extinction. The club's more familiar members include the Javan rhinoceros, Philippine eagle, Hawaiian crow, Spix's macaw and Chinese river dolphin. Other endangered species lined up for early admission are the giant panda, Sumatran rhinoceros and mountain gorilla...
...also reflects the growing muscle of the corporate-accountability movement. From dolphin-free tuna, to old-growth-free lumber, to child-labor-free carpets and sweatshop-free sneakers, environmental and social concerns are invading the marketplace as never before. Coffee, the world's second most heavily traded commodity after oil, is the first foodstuff to be independently certified for the U.S. market based on criteria of economic justice. "Our vision is nothing less than restructuring the inequities between North and South," says Paul Rice, head of TransFair USA, the certifying group...
...washed electronic hallucinations: Fervent crowds at barricades, media helicopters overhead, an air of anger/ardor/faith all mingled - a sort of religio-political hysteria, posters held up like icons, T-shirts of the boy worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...
Sony's rival, Sega, will be well entrenched with its Dreamcast console, which will have a library of 200 games by the time PlayStation 2 arrives. Even the Nintendo Dolphin, a device currently shrouded in more mystery than the Manhattan Project, will probably beat the X-box to the living room--and with a passel of popular Pokemon and Mario Bros. titles too. "People go for the games first," warns Jim Merrick, Nintendo USA's technical director. "Only then do they think about what system it comes with...