Word: guinea
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...northern reaches of the Paraguay River is about the size of Britain, and is home to over 200 species of fish - making it a prime site for South American anglers. While you're waiting for the fish to bite, you can spot giant otters, jaguar, anteaters, monkeys and huge guinea pig?like capybaras. There are also over 300 species of bird, ranging from toucans to the magnificent 1.2-m jabiru stork. Visitors stay in a lodge with air conditioning, private bathrooms and spectacular river views. Tours can be arranged on horseback or foot, by boat or jeep, but the Pantanal...
...Hockey should come back smaller and more true to itself, shedding expensive failures in places such as Nashville and Tampa and Equatorial Guinea. The few players who have name recognition will be too old to come back, so we?ll be forced to memorize completely new unpronounceable Swedish and Slovakian names. (Damn you for wasting my time, Miroslav Satan.) Hockey will be for the very few Americans it was meant for. Basically...
...mosquito breeding grounds where they are not usually found. Dengue is notoriously hard to eradicate but since 2002, there have been no cases of the disease in test areas. Still, scientists are cautious about widening the program to other regions: in Africa, "Mesos" are carriers of the notoriously parasitic Guinea worm...
After receiving his doctorate, he embarked on research expeditions through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, where he was able to prove what Darwin did not—that new species arise from the geographical isolation of populations. This led to his definition of species as “an interbreeding population that cannot breed with other groups,” the press release said...
...PLEADED GUILTY. MARK THATCHER, 51, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to charges of helping finance a foiled coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. Thatcher admitted that he inadvertently provided mercenaries with money for a helicopter, but said he believed it would be used as an air ambulance for humanitarian purposes. As part of his plea bargain, Thatcher received a $506,000 fine and a four-year suspended prison sentence...