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Anna Giordano was only 15 when she found her true calling. In 1981, near her Sicilian hometown of Messina, she watched helplessly as poachers unleashed their fire from cement bunkers on the hundreds of honey buzzards, hawks and other birds migrating over the narrow straits between Sicily and the Italian mainland. After seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky, she vowed that "this was the beginning of the end for the poachers...
Once local authorities started cooperating, Giordano's efforts paid off dramatically. Before she began monitoring the poachers, more than 5,000 supposedly protected birds--mostly honey buzzards, falcons, storks, orioles, kestrels and swallows--were slaughtered each year. Today the count averages less than 100 in Sicily, although more than 500 on the Calabrian side of the straits. On a recent tour of saltwater lakes on the outskirts of Messina, Giordano proudly pointed to the dozens of cormorants perched on wooden posts in the shallow water. "Twenty years ago," she says, "you would not have seen even one cormorant here. People...
Since the release of 1992's In Search of Manny and 1999's Electric Honey, featuring the melodic single "Ladyfinger," Luscious Jackson has been a force within the music industry. This all-female band continues to redefine its sound, which ranges from hip-hop rap to melancholy grunge ballads, in a changing music world. These rocking New Yorkers, on tour since the release of Electric Honey, are in Boston for the Yahoo! Out Loud Tour, a nationwide tour with Smash Mouth coupled with local bands, like Captain Audio, at the Orpheum on Feb 19. Kate Schellenbach, one of the major...
...streamlined modern design, it makes up for in raw character. Directly outside, there are four enormous bins of compost named after old tutors. Geibel and Weller walk through their pantry and proudly display the vats of 35 pounds of peanut butter, 15 pounds of tahini, 60 pounds of honey, and the highlight of the tour, the monstrous solid block of raisins...
Land of Milk and Honey...