Word: python
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...first wildlife walk, in 1982, Werikhe traveled 2,400 km (1,500 miles), from Kampala, Uganda, through Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and back to Mombasa, with only a pet python named Survival for company. Lecturing to villagers and schoolchildren, he raised about $30,000 for conservation groups. In 1988 Werikhe went to Europe, covering 2,900 km (1,800 miles) in 135 days, and collected almost $1 million for rhino sanctuaries. Partly as a result of Werikhe's efforts, Kenya's black rhino population -- once as low as 400 animals -- has been slowly increasing since 1988. When Werikhe...
Cleese also said that the money fromindependent projects kept the Monty Python castapart...
Currently writing a book on psychiatry, Cleesesaid he wants to finish the project before hemakes another movie--although he said anotherMonty Python film was doubtful...
Stressing the difficulty of writing a movie inthe Monty Python group, Cleese said Life ofBrian was a fluke "because we had the sameattitudes and feelings on religion...
...result is a compressed baby boom -- one that interrupts charts of Rumania's age groups less like the metaphorical pig in a python of the U.S. baby boom but rather more like a giraffe in a python. In 1972 Rumania had twice as many children in kindergarten as the year before. In 1989 twice as many 22-year-olds were flooding into the labor force. But Ceausescu was unable to create jobs in the late 1980s as rapidly as mothers created babies in the late 1960s. Revolutions are carried on the backs of the young, and the sudden increase...