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McCall Smith, on extended leave from his job, is prolific. He has written more than 30 children's books (he has two daughters--one at college, the other younger) and a monograph on the criminal law of Botswana. A new series of books about Isabel Dalhousie, a female gumshoe in Edinburgh, is well under way; the first installment, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is due out in September. A satirical novel about academics, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is expected in early 2005. And the sixth Ramotswe book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says...
...welcome tourism: "We like tourists coming here because they bring a lot of money into the park." But Jeffrey Lee, a traditional owner from the Djok clan, says, "We are still really sad about the death of that German tourist and we want to make sure people are safe." Isabel von Jordan was killed by a crocodile in a Kakadu billabong in 2002; her group's tour guide had told them they could ignore warning signs. "If that attack" - the first fatal one in the park in 15 years - "hadn't happened, we'd still be swimming at Twin Falls...
...suggested by the dialogue. This employment was fairly successful, although occasionally the wailing drowned out parts of the dialogue. The inaudibility of certain lines, however, was remarkably irrelevant to the effect of the production; the mournful gesturing, particularly on the part of Hecuba, the Queen of Troy (Harvard employee Isabel del Carmen Quintana), expressed at least as much as the somewhat repetitive speeches...
...Isabel C. Gonzalez
...species in the world," says Sonja Fordham, an international-fisheries specialist with the Ocean Conservancy, a private nonprofit that does science-based advocacy on ocean issues. "In most cases we don't know how their populations are doing. Stingrays are just not as easy to count as cows." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez