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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safeguard his Amazonian domain of woodlands, rivers and lakes, Davi has learned to master the world of airports and international assemblies as skillfully as he roams his spirit realm of giant anacondas. When Davi, in his 40s, speaks about the plight of the estimated 22,000 Yanomamis left alive in northern Brazil and Venezuela, he's a visionary who sees his people and their rain-forest gods being swept toward extinction. "When I go to the big city, I see hungry people, without anywhere to plant crops, without drinking water, without anywhere to live. I do not want this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Water: DAVI KOPENAWA YANOMAMI: Spirit from the Amazon | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...native of New York, Ingalls earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Sanskrit Chair Ingalls Dies at Age 83 | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...Straus and other close friends of Kennedy saw the first nonstop coverage of Kennedy's missing plane, they were more than skeptical. The media were going crazy about John again--nothing new there--and though it surely looked dire, he just had to be all right. He was the "Master of Disaster," always getting into scrapes but escaping. Perhaps he and Carolyn and her sister Lauren had ditched the plane and hitchhiked out of there, or maybe they were holed up on the beach of a tiny uninhabited island Kennedy knew, waiting to be discovered and sharing a little joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art Of Being JFK Jr. | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Paloff's fellow Mather seniors also received a letter from the registrar's office last month saying their diplomas were invalid due to a printing error--the titles of House Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73 had been switched--and that the certificates had to be mailed back in exchange for correct ones...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Error Causes Recall Of Mather Diplomas | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...believes computers, airplanes and other symptoms of modernity were introduced by aliens seeking to enslave the human spirit. Which is a problem for Beijing, since those attracted by Li?s message are hardly likely to be impressed by the communists? denunciation of his teachings as "false science." Science, according Master Li, is a tool of the aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alarmed, Beijing Bans a Massive Religious Sect | 7/21/1999 | See Source »

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