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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...
...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...