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Ecotourism does not always produce such benign results. In Ladakh, a remote Himalayan region in northern India, rural communities are overrun each summer by trekkers and their hungry ponies, which are destroying the limited vegetation. In Kenya's famed Masai Mara Reserve, overcrowding has become "a nightmare," says Simeon Kanani of Nairobi's Technical and Study Tours. In the mid-1990s the local county council earned $1 million a month for schools and hospitals from gate receipts, but at a price. "If you have 20 to 30 four-wheel drives in the park, is that ecotourism?" asks Kanani...
...three panelists--Mara G. Aspinall, president of the pharmaceutical division of the Genzyme Corporation, Maria Zapf, who works at Boston Life Sciences Incorporated, and Katya H. Mariz, the Product Strategy manager at Safe Science--each outlined different paths to their business careers. All three now work for companies that produce products through advanced scientific research...
There is an immediacy of action in the intimate space of the Peabody black box. Even in October the air is warm, stagnant and smells of cedar. Lighting director Mara Fishman conjures up the shadow of a slow-turning fan that cuts the oppressive heat of the show's Memphis setting. Albee intertwines two seemingly unrelated plots: One plot perceives a hospital staff as microcosmic to the discussion of racism; the other tells the story of the singer Bessie Smith. The two collide only in the end, when Bessie's companion Jack crashes and Bessie dies. Her death...
...Mara said that, until last year, the demonstrations were usually peaceful and involved no marching...
...Last year, they moved out into the street... UAINE said they would return until Plymouth canceled its Thanksgiving celebrations," O'Mara said...