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...boring sometimes and we're all interesting sometimes [but] some people are more boring than others," said Mark Leary, assistant psychology professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., co-author of the report with three students...
...nature's most impressive pageants, monarch butterflies fly from as far away as Canada to spend the winter in tiny patches of fir forest nestled in the mountains of central Mexico.* Though the butterfly migration has been going on since at least the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago, the isolated roosts were discovered by zoologists only in 1975. Alarmed by the disappearance of forests around the sites, the Mexican government and private conservation groups have joined forces to protect them. Says University of Florida Zoologist Lincoln Brower: "We're dealing with one of the most fragile...
Since local residents depend on the forest for a livelihood, Monarca and the government are attempting to find ways to diversify the area's economy. They have devised an ambitious program to improve the yield of already existing farmland, establish orchards, build more greenhouses (chrysanthemums are already grown in the region and sold for export) and even start fish- breeding pools. Though the plan is only beginning to be implemented, many environmentalists consider it part of a new chapter in Third World conservation. "Setting aside these sites as reserves is only a first step," says Curtis Freese, director of Latin...
...stories, old faces. The reunion party motored a couple of miles away to the site of Camp Stark, now nothing but a clearing at the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, a couple of tumbled stone fireplaces and a new highway marker sketching its history. Historian Koop, who had organized the affair and is writing a book about Stark, spoke of "rugged hills and gentle people" and quoted the truthful remark of one old resident that "yup, things have been kinda slow since they closed the camp." Hartmut Lang, a young official from the German consulate in Boston, said...
Besides paying homage to Wilson, True Stories also tips its dude-ranch ten- gallon Stetson to, among others, Glass and Meredith Monk, who choreographed the film's opening and closing tableaux. Byrne and Wilson will collaborate on The Forest, conceived as both a live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson...