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Last week the Delta was drying out after the wettest April and May on record. The giant Deere tractors with their 12-row cultivators left tails of dust as they stirred the baking fields. Ed Scott of Minter City was up at 5 a.m. to tend his eight catfish ponds. If all goes well, the black entrepreneur this year will sell nearly half a million pounds of catfish, the Delta's second biggest crop after cotton. In Arcola, Billy Percy was in a battered pickup as crop dusters in their yellow Air Tractors swooped around him, spraying rice and cotton...
...music-video producer who had made videos for Robert Cray, Alice Cooper and the Commodores, started writing. Nine months later, Thelma & Louise found its way to director Ridley Scott and, through him, to MGM/UA. During the shooting, Scott added much of the phallic imagery -- the huge trucks, the giant cacti and a chemical-spewing plane -- that has riled some of the film's detractors. He also cut scenes that portrayed the close friendship between the two title characters, including one in which each confides what she fears most (for Thelma, growing old with a husband who doesn't love...
...hike to the waterfall is part of a trip that began by rugged and fat- tired mountain bicycle in a forest of tiny trees and giant plants at 11,300 ft. on the very rim of the Amazon basin and will continue by white-water raft, motorized canoe and dugout canoe into the swampy lowlands. The guided excursion is designed as an experiment in ecotourism, where the focus is on nature rather than on stimulating thrills. The aim is to attract paying customers into previously inaccessible areas with minimal disruption of the surroundings...
...hold in a growing number of countries. Before civil war made travel too dangerous, visitors annually paid $10 million in government fees for the opportunity to see mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Parc des Volcans, giving citizens in that small, poor nation a stake in the survival of the giant apes. In Costa Rica nearly one-third of the 260,000 annual visitors cite the country's natural wonders as a reason for going, which helps stiffen government resolve to protect its uniquely varied forests. Specialized travel companies have sprung up to satisfy budding ecotourist demand. Texas-based Victor Emanuel...
...Manu is also one of the few places on earth where visitors can see giant river otters. The aggressive 70-lb. mammals make their home on lakes upstream from the lodge. Viewed from the vantage point of a dugout canoe, one otter family offered an idyllic vision of life in the wild, frolicking from one side of the lake to the other, while pausing occasionally to feast on abundant fish...