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...founded “Take Care,” a program to help both the environment and the lives of villagers around the national park by such measures as establishing microcredit banks and teaching conservation methods to preserve the forest...
Goodall said the devastation was a result of “more people living there than the land could support” who don’t have the money to buy food and firewood elsewhere, leading them to ravage the forest...
...drawing, working on life-model nudes in his small Parisian studio or copying in museums. A handful of his pencil copies are included in the retrospective, along with delightful 1976 photos by Franck that show him sketching in Paris' Museum of Natural History, calmly ensconced in a spiky forest of prehistoric skeletons with huge tusks and twisted horns. A self-described "fine family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded by art, and it has always been his first love. His father kept a sketchbook and his uncle Louis was a painter who studied at the Ecole...
Messenger, like The Giver, will tell the story of a dystopian community, to which people come for asylum. But a dangerous Forest—Lowry emphasizes that it is Forest with a capital “F”—surrounds the village. People can safely come through Forest into the village, but if they try to leave, Forest entangles them and “they die a hideous death,” Lowry says, adding that “I love writing gross, scary, and disgusting scenes.” The only person who can safely enter...
Yerba mate, a rain-forest plant native to South America, has long been brewed there as an alternative to tea and coffee. Mate sippers credit the green tea-like drink, which has less caffeine than coffee, with fighting fatigue, aiding digestion and helping defog the brain. Now yerba mate, in flavors like orange blossom and mint, is showing up in the U.S. in specialty teas, chocolates and bottled drinks. The grassy-tasting plant has been added to two varieties of SmartChocolate bars, a new raspberry flavor of Vitaminwater called Determination, and Zygo, a peach-infused vodka. Enthusiasts claim the plant...