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...through the trees across the river from his orangutans' forest habitat. And every day the fighting between Acehnese rebels and the army moved closer; mutilated bodies sometimes were found dumped in these very forests. Indonesia was literally falling apart, village by village, tree by tree, and that meant extinction was nigh for myriad species, among them Van Schaik's orangutans. Environmentalists once said the apes might be extinct in a matter of decades; their increasingly frantic warnings now spoke of just years. Orangutans need virgin forest, and even senior officials acknowledged that all virgin forest in Sumatra would probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging On | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...voluble Smits, a former high school wrestler, ticks off a list of new findings just beginning to reveal what we will lose if wild orangutans become extinct. Often dubbed the world's best field botanists, orangutans are also talented pharmacists, treating their illnesses with forest plants. Because of their similarity to humans, the benefits are obvious. Plagued by a splitting headache while walking in the forest, Smits remembered seeing a slumped female orangutan clutching her head and groaning, only to make what seemed to be a complete recovery after eating some flowers from a nearby bush. "I immediately went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging On | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

www.jurassicpark.com LOOK Lots of scary claw marks TIME WASTER Webcast from the set with commentary on story and FX by cast members Sam Neill and William H. Macy OVERALL MERIT Should be made extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet of The Hypes | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Izzo's in the Tourney? Why didn't you say so! Turn up the music in Motown, baby! Michigan State is returning to the Dance! The Flintstones are extinct except for Charlie Bell, but the senior can do it awl. Andre Hutson can put the rock in the hoop too. It's awl about senior leadership in the tourney, and the Spartans have what it takes...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to the Sea: It's Awesome with a Capital 'A,' Baby | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

...America I grew up in is extinct. I was raised in the Atlantis of the '50s, in the time before time, in a flickering, black-and-white Pleistocene. A volcano erupted and destroyed the Eisenhower era. It lies under the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was a Very Good Year | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

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