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Megamillionaires with a willed fortune are often ambivalent about it. Inheriting Dow Jones stock now worth $150 million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden...
Fire Came to the Earth People (St. Martin's Press; $9.95) speaks of another kind of legend. The moon goddess Mawu, say the West Africans, wanted to keep fire for herself. The lion, panther, elephant and antelope vainly tried to persuade her to part with the secret. Then the chameleon...
In lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a...
The incident, in which at least two wardens were wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in...
Meanwhile, the legal market for elephant ivory is on the increase. "Our fear is that the recent resurgence in heavy poaching of elephants may spill over onto black rhino," says David Western, director of Wildlife Conservation International. In Kenya alone the black-rhino population has dwindled from 20,000 in...