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...easy to see that Maria Marcovaldi loves sea turtles. There is an image of the long-lived beast (some reach age 70) on her T shirt. And miniature re-creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings...
...means she and her husband Guy Marcovaldi. Together Maria, 40, and Guy, 44, run Brazil's National Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Known less formally as TAMAR (from tartaruga marinha, the Portuguese words for sea turtle), the program protects the five species of marine turtles that trudge out of the Atlantic Ocean to make their nests on Brazil's beaches...
...When Maria (known to friends as "Neca") and Guy launched the project in 1980, fishermen killed turtles for meat and poached their eggs. The skins became wallets, the shells jewelry. Mother turtles laying eggs on the beach were easy targets, and most of the 2-in.-long hatchlings never made...
...Saturday night the dining hall staff firstdrained the dirty sewage water. MacGilliviay then"soaked the place with clean water and soap."Coming in early yesterday, MacGillivay once againsoaked the serving area with soap and water.Another staff member, Maria Silva, then scrubbedthe entire area to ensure it was clean by the timestudents turned up for brunch...
Candidate Votes PercentageJanet Jeghelian 91,300 45.0%Jane Maria Swift 107,659 53.0%43% of precincts reported...