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TAMAR would not have worked if the Marcovaldis had not convinced Brazilians that turtles were worth more alive than dead. Thanks to the program, visitors flock to see the great reptiles come out of the sea. In Praia do Forte the majority of the 2,000 residents have jobs in tourism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guy And Neca Marcovaldi: The Best Friends a Brazilian Turtle Could Have | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...falling like freezing spikes, and thousands of protesters greeted his fleet of black limousines before he was safely delivered to Sanders Theatre. Like Mandela's speech, the content of Jiang's was largely irrelevant. The Chinese president's visit, also like Mandela's, was preceded by speeches from a flock of Harvard professors...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: The Blessing Or the Curse? | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...always remember the regent's axiom: A leader,' he said, is like a sheperd. He stays behind the flock letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Born Into Racism, Mandela Overcomes | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

...people. I am the people." Fade out to what every honest person has been thinking these past seven months, about not reaching for the first stone. The point that Lewis made with Gantry was that the preacher was also a man. Draped in the refuse of his flock's fury, Gantry asks, "What were they so mad about anyhow?" Someone answers, "The mob don't like their gods to be human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Gantry Addresses the Flock | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Twenty-one Julys have come and gone since Buffett scored his only Top 10 single, Margaritaville, but every year Parrotheads across the country flock to hear his island-inflected folk-pop tunes, drawn from three decades' worth of albums and played pretty much the same way night after night, year after year. "He's like an old friend you haven't seen in a while, but it's comfortable," says David Jahn, 51, a hospital administrator with parrots painted on his toenails. "No surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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