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Deep inside the rain forest, south of the mighty Amazon River, lies a 435-mile stretch of dirt road. For many Brazilians, the paving of such rutted, often impassable routes has almost mystical significance as an essential part of economic progress. But to environmentalists this ritual of development always means destruction for the earth's largest rain forest, and in this particular case, could unleash forces that would make this road the most dangerous thoroughfare in the world...
Such concerns have not deterred the Brazilian government from its decision to pave over those 435 miles, the last unfinished portion of a highway called BR-163. That will create a 1,080-mile chain of asphalt going past the Tapajos National Forest and linking the Amazon River with southern Brazil. As has happened throughout the Amazon basin, the completion of the highway will open the forest to settlers, and they will undoubtedly set fires to clear land near the road. This area, however is regularly hit by drought and is perhaps the most vulnerable part of the forest. Fires...
...real ones were pretty much confined to college campuses, where people swapped floppies with dewy-eyed abandon. But now, as everyone knows, genuine viruses--nasty, infectious, hard-drive-trashing ones--are far more common, thanks to e-mail-borne bugs that mutate faster than a walking catfish at Three Mile Island. So what's an e-mail magnet like...
...bond can be secured by any dependable stream of revenue--corporate earnings, tax receipts, mortgage payments, Bag of Bones royalties. Bag of Bones? Well, yes, not to mention Carrie, The Shining and The Green Mile. You see, Wall Street financier David Pullman, who in 1997 rocked investors with "Bowie bonds," backed by royalties on the songs of David Bowie, is planning to create securities based on the earnings of authors. And while Pullman won't name the writers he has approached, may we suggest that a Stephen King bond would be an excellent investment opportunity...
Many families return year after year to celebrate an elegant Southern Christmas at the Cloister at Sea Island, Ga. The resort, located on a 5-mile-long island that was once a Native American fishing ground, has been owned and operated by the same family since it opened in 1928. Traditions abound: there is a huge tree, a gingerbread house, caroling and sing-alongs, ballroom dances, a yule-log ceremony, an eggnog party and other holiday feasts. The children welcome Santa and his Mrs., who arrive in a sleigh jeep, to their own Christmas Eve party...