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...what happened to Christian: "Early in 1973, Christian crossed the Tana River, going north in the direction of the Meru National Park, a much more attractive area and a good hunting ground. In a national park, animals were safer from poachers, hunters, and tribesmen with cattle. Sadly, George [Adamson] finally stop counting the days and months of Christian's absence from [his home], and he was never seen again. For the next few years, we waited for any news. We liked to imagine that he had established a territory and pride of his own a long way away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lion Called Christian: Two Men and A Cat | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...ascetic on the top of Mount Meru. I have been so materialistic all these years. I need to go figure out what my place in the world is. I'll take my yoga mat and my Evian and I'll see you once I attain nirvana. Either that or go into consulting...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...gardening tools and watering cans. Finally a small car pulled up, and out strode their leader, Wangari Maathai, an imposing 5-ft. 8-in. woman in a long blue dress and a red-and-black polka-dot head scarf. She picked up a pot containing a 2-ft. Meru oak seedling, but the police refused to let her carry it into the forest. In a soft but determined voice she spoke directly to Chief Inspector Paul Muluma: "Since you are illegally preventing us from planting trees in the forest and I do not want this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: WANGARI MAATHAI: Her Women's Army Defies An Iron Regime | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Meru region of central Kenya isn't the sort of place most TV producers might find themselves making a movie-of-the-week, but then Robert Halmi Sr., 73, isn't the kind of guy who keeps busy churning out projects with names like Abduction of Innocence: A Moment of Truth Movie. While overseeing the production of an upcoming ABC movie on the explorers Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone near Mount Kenya recently, Halmi hired a group of Masai tribesmen as extras. Just as the scene in which they were to participate had begun shooting, a busload of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: FORGET CLIFFS NOTES | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...killers often attack under cover of darkness, shooting their victims in cold blood and hacking off their horns before disappearing into the night. In Kenya's Meru National Park two weeks ago, 30 heavily armed poachers slaughtered five rhinoceroses and traded gunfire with park wardens before making their getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poaching: Night of The Rhino | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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