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...tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas. A coffee-guzzling eco-evangelist with a pendant shaped like an endangered sea turtle dangling from her neck, Mitraud converts farmers, miners and housewives to viable but more ecologically sustainable livelihoods, such as ecotourism. She has the abrupt professionalism of a Harvard M.B.A. and the urgency of a woman who is sprinting madly against a clock. It is an often joyless...
...large TV-screen, pendant above the court, images of the Dins were superimposed on images of the American flag, Boston's skyline and colorful fireworks...
Jawak wore a strapless, shiny dress that was tight and colorful, yet not garishly bright. Completing his ensemble was a pair of patent leather pumps and a huge pendant earring...
...used to emphasize gender and age distinctions in social groups. In addition to the beads, the girl has delicate snowflake-like carvings around her head and torso. The boy has no snowflakes but wears a belt made from 240 fox canine teeth. And the man is wearing a single pendant made of stone in the middle of his chest. Another distinction: the beads on the children's bodies are approximately two-thirds the size of those the man is wearing...
SOUTHERN AFRICA'S ARTISTIC RECORD is much sparser. Scientists have unearthed a pendant made from a seashell that may be more than 40,000 years old, carved bones and beads made from ostrich eggshells that probably date from around 27,000 B.P., and paintings on slabs of rock in a Namibian cave that may be nearly as old. But like Australia's Aborigines, southern Africa's indigenous people carried on their rock-art tradition into modern times, confusing anthropologists' tasks considerably...