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...condos and tennis courts: 64,000 acres of wetlands stretching along 60 miles of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hardwood hammocks, saw grass, palms, brackish scrub. Teeming with many exotic -- as well as threatened and endangered -- species such as alligators, manatees, green turtles and bald eagles. Probably the largest plot of undeveloped private property left in the East...
...similarly fragile environments. From its headquarters in Arlington, Va., it now oversees a 2.61 million-acre empire that includes more than 1,000 species of threatened plants and animals. "We have been called the best-kept secret in conservation," says William Blair, TNC's president emeritus. "We are the largest private owner of land sanctuaries in the world, and we are either No. 1 or No. 2 in the amount of money we spend on conservation each year." Says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Frank Dunkle: "The conservancy is all action and no talk. While others have been...
...chairman of J. Walter Thompson, the fifth largest advertising agency in the U.S., Joseph O'Donnell was one of Madison Avenue's golden boys. During his ten years at the agency, he had raced ever upward through the ranks. At the start of the year O'Donnell at 44 had defeated several rivals to become the chief at Thompson and the heir apparent to Don Johnston, the 59-year-old chairman of the J.W.T. Group, the holding company (estimated 1986 sales: $650 million) that owns the ad agency. Further triumphs seemed assured...
This week the largest group of U.S. foreign policy experts to visit the Soviet Union in some time will be able to form their own judgments on the changes wrought so far during the Gorbachev era. A delegation of 350 members of the Council on Foreign Relations, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and ex-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, is scheduled to be in Moscow for discussions with Soviet officials and academics, and Gorbachev is expected to meet with the group...
...wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year to promote development and erase poverty. Groups offering assistance range from behemoths like the World Bank, which annually lends some $16 billion to developing countries...