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...less for the mess and comparative hardship of camping; as far as they are concerned, the whole thing is strictly for the magpies. But like golf widows and fishing widows, they know they are licked unless they join the menfolk, so they have revolted, picked up their sunglasses and mosquito spray, and marched off together... In most of the national parks, campers can find hot and cold water, city-style plumbing, cocktail lounges, automatic laundries, hairdressers, TV and enough electric power to light the city of Boise. Michigan authorities have already approved installation of additional electrical facilities to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 40 Years Ago In TIME | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...MOSQUITOES Weird wet weather in late spring followed by tropical heat is blamed for record mosquito infestations as health officials brace for more cases of encephalitis, West Nile fever, E. coli and other skeeter-borne maladies this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Pests | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...workday sometimes finds John Forgach draped in mosquito netting, paddling the backwaters of the Amazon in a dugout canoe. He's on the hunt--for a new investment. Forgach, 52, spent decades making money the old-fashioned way, as an investment banker in places like Geneva and New York City. Now he is back in his native Brazil to show that preserving the environment and indigenous cultures can be profitable. As CEO of a Sao Paulo-based private company called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exports from Amazonia | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

Roni Bowers' life looked a lot like something out of The Mosquito Coast: she and her family lived on a 55-ft. houseboat with two bedrooms and a solar-powered refrigerator. They collected rainwater in tanks on the roof, which they filtered for drinking. From their home base in Iquitos, they motored back and forth along a lush 200-mile stretch of the Amazon, making regular stops at some 50 villages to set up volleyball nets, read Bible stories and show religious films off the boat's generator. For Roni, everyday worries included making sure her adopted son, Cory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mission Interrupted | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Filming begins after sunset, and Timkul has already downed several cans of Heineken, insisting she was so nervous the night before she couldn't sleep. Chung has a few too. It's a miminal set: white walls, rotating ceiling fans, a plain dark wooden bed. Nonzee drapes a mosquito net over the bed and parts it so the camera can watch through a gap. The girls get up from behind the monitor in an adjoining room where Nonzee orchestrates the shots, take a big sigh and get ready to rumble. "Action!" The girls sit erect on the bed, kissing each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride & Passion | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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