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...only resisted settlement but has retained its animist beliefs. Other longhouses have converted to Christianity, a change that they find brings some practical benefits, but at a price. Gone are medicines that involved spells, as well as taboos on women's eating leopard, monkey, sun bear and python. One old hunter says Christianity has simplified life. "Before, if I went from one place to another, I had to worry about taboos," he says. "What dream did I have last night, what route should I take? Now I just go there." On the other hand, he says, since converting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borneo | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Defenders of the Planet | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Cleese also said that the money fromindependent projects kept the Monty Python castapart...

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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