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...traditional use of the plant potion is permitted in much of South America. Its mecca is the Peruvian city of Iquitos, which hosts the annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference and is home to about a dozen lodges that cater to curious foreigners. At first, local residents feared that a flood of stoned beatniks would turn Iquitos into an unruly rain-forest Woodstock. "I thought they'd be from the hippie graveyard, with tattoos and sunken faces," says Gerald Mayeaux, a Houston native who runs The Yellow Rose of Texas restaurant in Iquitos. "But these are doctors and lawyers. These...
...addressing a group of several thousand red shirts camped outside Government House by videophone almost every evening for the past two weeks, calling for a "revolution" in Thailand. He has spurned talks with Abhisit's government aimed at easing political tensions, and asked for half a million supporters to flood the streets on Wednesday to force the newly appointed prime minister to resign and pave the way for Thaksin's return to power through an amnesty. (Read a TIME Q&A with Thaksin Shinawatra...
...back of the net to tie the game at two, but Petropulos helped Harvard again minutes later with an assist on Flynn’s first goal of the game. This marked the last time in the contest that the Crimson held an advantage. Junior tri-captain Sara Flood tallied another goal for Harvard with twelve minutes remaining in the half, off of an assist from senior Kaitlin Martin, to bring the score to 4-4. But Penn held the Crimson scoreless for the remainder of play in the first half. “We played with them...
groups, I'm certain they're going to flood to the one with more
...flat as a pool table and barely a mile wide at its narrowest, the Rockaway Peninsula - a tongue of land that sticks into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City's southeastern corner - is already vulnerable to storm surges and floods. Global warming, with its rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below...