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After watching her get 27 inoculations for a slew of strange diseases and realizing that it's darn hard to get a good cup of java in the rainforest (even if you're in Java), I decided to spend my summer in the marshy, bug-infested, urban jungle of Washington...
...Jose, Calif., last February seemed familiar enough. Inside, two pro-business think tanks, the Brookings Institution and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, treated the Silicon Valley elite to chicken with mango sauce and a speech by a distinguished guest. Outside, environmental activists from the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and the Green Party chanted their disapproval...
...multistory department stores in favor of a ground-level, oval floor plan anchored by off-price retailers like Saks' off 5th, T.J. Maxx and Marshalls. Throw in a couple hundred specialty stores. Add a giant Marriott-managed food court as well as theme eateries such as Puck's and Rainforest Cafe. Stir in razzmatazz such as Ogden Entertainment's American Wilderness Experience, a combination restaurant, retail outlet and enviro-amusement park; or GameWorks, the virtual-reality video-game arcade created by Sega, DreamWorks SKG and Universal Studios. "To win in this business you must offer vibrancy and value to fight...
That may, however, be a matter of cultural interpretation. Shaman's ethnobotanists have found that many rainforest healers actually live with their patients to witness firsthand the full range of medical symptoms. "That," says Conte, "is much more sophisticated healing than what we do here...
...encroachment on open spaces, the felling and fragmentation of forests, industrial pollution and overzealous pesticide use. "The pollination crisis," as entomologists Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan term it in a new book, The Forgotten Pollinators (Island Press/Shearwater Books; $25), is not just of concern to beekeepers and rainforest activists. It is, they write, a way to "inform us about how the world works and what is at stake if we simply ignore the needs of pollinators...