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...ethic, Hacienda Pinilla haciendapinilla.com) a 4,500-acre resort and residential community on the Nicoya Peninsula, will maintain extensive tracts of its terrain undeveloped. Hidden in the heart of cattle country--Costa Rica's Wild West--this tropical dry forest is inhabited by dense populations of howler monkeys, iguanas and birds. Guests who take advantage of the resort's seaside golf course can expect to encounter plenty of the local wildlife, including a boa that has taken up residence in a heavily wooded patch of trees by the 14th hole. This has come at no sacrifice to amenities. Accommodations...
...face it, Chrissie Hynde is a singer. I'm more of a howler...
...shops - is still standing. Hogwarts Castle's mile-high central staircase continues to twist and turn according to its own whims. Columbus has included all of the book's greatest moments: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, 14, in whose voice you can hear the raspy effects of puberty) receives a "howler" telegram from his mother, which screams almost as loudly as the Mandrakes. He also coughs up a nifty series of giant slugs. Moaning Myrtle haunts the girls' restroom and dives through toilets, making a mess. It all adds up to a two-hour-and-42-minute movie, which is nine...
...blood filled is Titus, in fact, that Yale humanistic-sage-in-residence Harold Bloom is convinced that it must be a parody of the works of Christopher Marlowe: sensationalistic, and rather less than poetic. “Shakespeare knew it was a howler,” Bloom has written, “and expected the more discerning to wallow in it self-consciously...
...jungle-scouting expeditions--was the 1999 purchase of a $1.5 million majority stake in Muana Alimentos, located on the remote Amazon island of Marajo. Muana cultivates acaizeiro palms and packages and sells the palms' hearts (prized for gourmet salads) and their purple acai fruit (used in Howler's organic Rainforest Sorbet). In an industry in which exploitation of the environment and workers is the norm, Muana stood out by refusing to employ children. It paid its workers and suppliers at least 28% above the $78-a-month minimum wage. And it harvested the hearts and fruit of the acaizeiro...