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...continued into the Amazon basin by mountain bike and white-water raft, the temperature and humidity rose. Cloud-forest plants and animals began to give way to parrots, fasciated tiger herons -- a hunter of large fish and snakes that looks like it is wearing a herringbone overcoat -- and other lowland creatures. We settled for the night at Amazonia Lodge, a former tea plantation across from the tiny river port of Atalaya. The owner, Santiago Yabar, tells us that he first visited the plantation as a tax collector in the 1970s, then later bought it and transformed its run-down buildings...
Protecting intellectual property has become a growth industry in itself. New York City's Weil, Gotshal & Manges two years ago became the first major law firm to establish a separate group specializing in patents, trademarks and copyrights. It has some 35 intellectual-property attorneys on staff. Fish & Neave, also in New York City, runs the biggest intellectual-property practice, with some 110 attorneys specializing in the field. General Electric, America's biggest exporter and No. 1 patent holder, has added some 25 patent attorneys to its staff since 1985, for a total of 125. It still ranks second...
...state's 1990-91 tourist map. Certainly the instructions to photographer Steve Bly seemed clear enough: go forth into the wilderness and bring back a shot of a "good-looking man with a big trout." But Bly went too far afield to snap his fisherman and his fish -- all the way to the Boise River in neighboring Idaho. With more than a million of the embarrassing maps in circulation, Montana commerce director Chuck Brooke is angling for damage control. Said he: "I thought that fish was kind of small for a Montana trout...
...Texas, says federal fish and wildlife agent Jim Stinebaugh, canned hunts are quick and dirty, most of them the work of "fly-by-night promoters who find a cat at an exotic-animal auction and then put a deal together." Two hunting guides, Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell McCloud, were indicted in San Antonio last April for unlawfully conspiring to sell and transport a black leopard; McCloud has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed...
...easy being among the poorer fish in a sea of well-endowed graduate schools, but over her nine-year tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Education, Patricia A. Graham used her limited resources to make a splash in education circles...