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...clear signals coming from Beijing that anyone wanting to do serious big business with the communist government had better be prepared to shift to the mainland metropolis. Chinese President Jiang Zemin's national government has been a major exponent of Shanghai's new Pudong economic center, some 135 sq. mi. of former marshland that is the transplanted economic heart of the new Shanghai. Having invested around $185 billion in Shanghai's renaissance, China's rulers clearly want to see the rest of the world acknowledge the primacy of their choice...
...first one, Kgalagadi, which means Land of Thirst, was created last year by merging two parks that straddled the border of South Africa and Botswana. The combination is a 14,600-sq.-mi. wilderness area in which tourists and animals can move freely. Since the formal opening last May, tourist traffic has been projected to triple to 150,000 visitors annually. A Peace Parks Club run by the foundation offers 10-day tours of the park that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced rangers of the San tribe, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
Rupert's organization has plans for eight more such parks. By year end he will launch the first phase of a giant park straddling South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The GKG (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou) Peace Park will eventually have an area of nearly 38,600 sq. mi., the size of Portugal. More than 350 Mozambicans are being trained in game management and ranger work to provide for an expected increase in tourism to the new area. "I'm a realist who believes in miracles," says Rupert. "The secret is not to do things for people but to do things with...
...everyone knows, the XIst century--and with it, the second millennium--will not really start until January I, MI. This past year, the Year M, was simply irrelevant. Yet few are celebrating this milestone; we've already had one millennium celebration in the last XII months, and no amount of persuasion will convince the populace that the calendar started in the Year I, not the Year...well, not the year before that. [This was before zeros, at least in Europe anyway. The Hindus, Arabs and Mayans had zeros, but it didn't seem to do them much good...
...fire year, more than 15,000 sq. mi. of Brazil's rain forest went up in flames. Ecologists say the paving of BR-163 will put at risk 580,000 sq. mi.--one-third of the dense forest remaining in the Amazon region. To get an idea of the scale of the potential catastrophe, imagine all of Alaska as scorched earth...