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...vividly hued sign on the meter offers a sense of the impact of the coins, which go to La Amistad National Park in Costa Rica. Each hectare (2.5 acres) preserved, reads the sign, will save 500 butterflies, 200 orchids, 10,000 mushrooms, 20 frogs, half a parrot and a thousandth of a jaguar. The message seems to make a deep impression on budding environmentalists. "It's really neat," says Lily Lubin, 9, who persuaded her parents to part with some change. "It feels like every time I put a quarter in, I'm saving an animal's life...
Nonsense, retorts Cornell professor Andrea Parrot, co-author of Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Crime. Seduction should not be about lies, manipulation, game playing or coercion of any kind, she says. "Too bad that people think that the only way you can have passion and excitement and sex is if there are miscommunications, and one person is forced to do something he or she doesn't want to do." The very pleasures of sexual encounters should lie in the fact of mutual comfort and consent: "You can hang from the ceiling, you can use fruit, you can go crazy and have...
...president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. In mid-March his bureau unveiled the first in a series of advertisements for a $2 million year-long campaign designed to show off the city's colorful Caribbean culture. In one spot, hometown singer Gloria Estefan coos to her parrot, "We just love coming home to Miami, don't we Coco...
...Colin Powell and the Pentagon establishment conspire to make sure the public never finds out just how awful this war really is. Military officials toe the White House line, and reporters parrot their propaganda to the people...
...teaching methods in order to take advantage of women's sense of relationship. For example, at the Emma Willard School, the entire curriculum has been revised to emphasize cooperative learning rather than individual competition and to encourage girls to analyze and express ideas from their own perspective rather than parrot back the accepted dogma. In psychology, distant, impersonal therapists are gradually giving way to more empathic and active listeners who are better able to help women scarred by battering or sexual abuse...