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...reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next to the gift shop. We take another car to a second, higher peak. I find out that Portuguese explorers thought the peaks looked like the clay molds used to press sugar into conical lumps, so they called the place Sugar Loaf; plus they mispronounced the original Indian name. Whatever the Indian...
...missing creature is often on Ryder's mind. "Could you take a cell from a Morro Bay kangaroo rat and bring it back, and would it be the same?" he asks. "There are a lot of questions, but we don't have that option now because nobody saved the cells" while lab work was being conducted on the rodent in the 1970s. "The future will want to know about these species, and the lingua franca of biology is increasingly going to be genomic information. If nobody saves the DNA of these samples, it's going to be a very fragmented...
...BLACK LION TAMARIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION 900 or more --Thought to have become extinct because it hadn't been seen for decades, it was rediscovered in 1970 in the forests of Morro do Diabo State Park...
...they can avoid the same fate? The answer begins with the 100,000 or so employees jettisoned by the airlines during the restructurings of the past six years. They constitute a formidable pool of skills itching to get back into action, at a cut-rate price. Air 21's Morro hires pilots for $40,000 a year, as opposed to $100,000-plus at the majors. First officers get $24,000, and flight attendants start...
...executives. "The airline business is tough," says ValuJet's Jordan, "but it's all we really know." Jordan is a former president of Continental. KIWI CEO Jerry Murphy spent 24 years at Pan Am; Western Pacific's chairman, Ed Beauvais, started America West; and Air 21's chairman, Mark Morro, co-founded and was president of Wings West Airlines. They have seen, up close, airlines struggling and going under...