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Once suitably soaked, perhaps with an authentic fleck of rain-forest mud or two around your ankles, forge your way back to the Livingstone for lunch. After a morning discovering Africa, most guests quite rightly opt for an afternoon by the pool. Children and companions with attention-deficit disorder can be diverted to helicopter rides over the Falls or game drives in the tiny adjacent Mosi-oa-Tunya Zoological Park, which boasts five white rhinos, as well as antelopes, giraffes and buffalos. Exploring this ain't - and it's all the better for it. www.suninter national.com
...change the organizing principle of his cautious 2000 campaign. Doing so might not have won many votes by itself, but it might have helped free him from the consultants, unleashing a more authentic Gore-and that could have made all the difference. "There's a tree-falls-in-the-forest factor here," he says. "Because the many speeches that I made about this were not really reported. More than half the articles written about global warming that year said it might not even be real. But I take responsibility for not having the skills needed to break through the clutter...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta, traffic moves as slowly as blood through a corpse. Streams of motorcycles part for SUVs and diesel-spewing buses, and everyone gets nowhere fast. The air is smeared, both from the vehicle exhaust and the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rain forests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they're cut down...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta, traffic moves as slowly as blood through a corpse. Streams of motorcycles part for SUVs and diesel-spewing buses, and everyone gets nowhere fast. The air is clogged from the vehicle exhaust and from the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rainforests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation in the world, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they...
...cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain to Green" program designed to convert marginal mountainside farms back to forest. There is nothing to be gained by focusing on a few misguided efforts and ridiculing a program that has been highly successful overall...