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...Aguilera's CD Mi Reflejo (RCA) she's finally able to stretch her wings. Aguilera is half Irish American and half Ecuadoran, but she was primarily raised in an English-speaking home. With this new CD she sets off in search of her Spanish heritage, a modern-day answer to the Spanish explorers of centuries past. The conquistadors were seeking a new world; Aguilera is searching for her roots. The CD, produced by Rudy Perez (Luis Miguel), consists of five translations of her pop hits and six original Spanish recordings...
...very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park. Traveling with Free Spirit Air Adventures www.elmhirst.com) Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they were even more affected by Sam Hunter, their Cree guide, and his family www.icebeartours.com) The best part of the trip, Piacentini says, was "the respect for the land and animals that we gained through their eyes...
Media accounts have also drawn tens of thousands to Ontario's Algonquin Park (www.algonquinpark.on.ca), 3,000 sq. mi. of wild country--with an unusual attraction: public wolf howls. Provided park naturalists find packs in suitable locations in advance, howls take place on Thursday nights in August. Folks drive hours to attend a howl, which may last less than two minutes. Yet "no one goes away disappointed," says park naturalist Rick Stronks. When this haunting symphony of adult wolves and pups begins, not a peep is heard from human crowds as large...
...most traffic, but there are plenty of other roads worth exploring this season. Pop singer Samantha Mumba, a half-Irish, half-Zambian 17-year-old, releases a promising debut in October, and 19-year-old diva Christina Aguilera reconnects to her Latin roots with a Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo, out Sept. 12. Rock will have its place, with U2 and the Wallflowers readying new CDs, and soul will have its day, with Erykah Badu making a welcome return and Sade making a welcome and long-awaited one. As for hip-hop, the Atlanta-based duo Outkast, jazz rapper Guru...
...fans' best hope is that Veerappan will simply let Rajkumar go. The bandit has free run of an almost 2,000-sq.-mi. jungle in Southern India. Here, he has allegedly killed more than 2,000 elephants for their ivory tusks, felled thousands of sandalwood trees to smuggle their aromatic and expensive bark and murdered at least 120 people. Veerappan is more than a match for local police. For the past decade, a force of 600 commandos has been combing the forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that...