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...there is oil and gas in the ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells could be drilled on a slant from the park's maintenance area without appreciable danger to flora and fauna. As for the proviso forbidding commercial development, the city's lawyers were satisfied that since a handsome slice of revenues from any producing well would be earmarked for park improvements, this would nicely satisfy the test that the land be used for "park purposes...
Warner, naturally enough, spends much of his book discussing the biology of the Chesapeake's fauna. Despite their feisty dispositions, crabs can also be considerate. Most marine creatures follow the love-them-and-leave-them tradition. But male blue crabs, or "jimmies," take good care of their mates. After car rying them in a soft embrace during the mating ritual, jimmies form protective cages around the "sooks," or mature females, as they shed their old shells and wait for new skeletons to form...
...much more subtle effects, Naipaul indicates, than building slums and mansions and creating racist distinctions. Imperialism twists social relations, turns rebels into sexual perverts and capitalists into unsuspecting in-stigators of revolution. The simple black and white definitions are not adequate for the scorched and ambiguous flora and fauna of this island--they do not explain the random murders and the failure of revolution. Instead, Naipaul explains these failures by the fact that imperialism has claimed with it even Jimmy Ahmed, who dreams of the approval of upper-class white women and of personal advancement. The reggae music that floats...
...fantastical flora and fauna of the New World provoked equal curiosity among artists and their patrons. No European before Columbus had ever seen a red macaw (though Raphael shortly afterward included some...
...still uncrowded. The 45-mile-long island is a glacier-compacted wilderness of immense topographical variety, pierced by 120 miles of trails. Says Backpacker Eddie Maier, an environmental engineer from Lansing, Mich.: "When you step on the island, it's like stepping back 200 years." Flora and fauna spotters can look for 101 varieties of wildflowers, 40 varieties of birds and five kinds of fish that are unique to the island; moose can be seen swimming in birch-fringed coves. For those who like to commune with room service as well as nature, the island has a modern hotel...