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...find some pretty strange creatures in New York City's Central Park, especially after dark. But it's not every day that you run into one with poisonous fangs and 41 pairs of legs. In fact, this particular creature had never before been seen by scientists, in or out of the city, which is why it made headlines last week...
...these tiny centipedes (about 0.4 in. long) were retrieved from samples of leaf litter as part of a biological dragnet conducted in 1998 for the Central Park Conservancy by researchers Liz Johnson and Kefyn Catley of the American Museum of Natural History. Their mission: to assess the health of the park's somewhat trampled woodland ecosystem in order to better preserve it. The creatures they collected were sorted and sent to various taxonomists for positive ID, which is how this one ended up in the hands of Richard Hoffman, curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History...
...Washington's Smithsonian Institution, has been eclipsed according to Hoffman by a preoccupation with molecular biology. "It's a sad situation," he says. "We're coasting on the glamour of biodiversity but losing the ability to identify the creatures on this planet." Even the ones in a big city park...
...fear the two facilities will wind up competing for visitors from mainland China, which had been expected to contribute about 75% of Hong Kong Disneyland's customers in its first few years. Hong Kong has a big investment to recoup: the city agreed to pay $2.9 billion toward the park's construction. Disney chipped in a mere $314 million, for which the company will get a hefty 43% ownership stake along with management fees...
...Hong Kong officials feel they've been taken for a ride by The Mouse, but during negotiations Disney representatives made no secret of the fact they might want to build a second park on the mainland. The only assurances given were aired in February 2001 when Donald Tsang, then Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, claimed Disney officials told him there would be no second park in China until the first was "mature...