Word: rainforests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Chris: These taste like an occult rainforest tribe sacrificed one of it’s members, threw the corpse into the river to be consumed by piranhas, and then some shaman collected the remaining flakes of skin, dried them out and sold them in bulk to Harvard in return for a Harvard Crew rowing vessel that he could use to cruise around the Amazon and be the awesomest shaman around...
...conversation that ripples through Java, Indonesia's most populous island, where chaotic cities jostle for space with serene rice paddies and dwindling enclaves of rainforest. And it's not yet clear whose telling of Islam will prevail. Will it be the moderation extolled by vast Islamic organizations like Muhammadiyah? The wildly popular entrepreneurship of Aa Gym, whose immaculately clad staff hand out glossy brochures in the gardens of his pesantren-cum-business headquarters while visitors sip on the celebrity preacher's own brand of soft drink? Will it be the dogma of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist...
...large boulders while Pat conjures a stir fry out of the food barrels. After dinner some of us take a raft back up to the Irenabyss and slowly paddle through it as the dusk fades over its ink black water, the eerie calls of currawongs echoing through the rainforest...
...listen to the scrub." Wind roars in the canopy above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone bluff, half-hidden by the immense arching fronds of tree ferns, a dark cave mouth gapes crookedly, big enough to admit a man almost upright. But Shaw, the head of the Tasmanian...
...deluge of leaves. But if this art does date to the last Ice Age, its guardians - their bodies probably rubbed with a mixture of ocher and animal fat against the cold - would have looked out on a much barer world. Until, that is, the climate warmed and dense rainforest spread like an incoming tide, forcing people from their caves and gullies into the open areas where prey roamed - even as rising seas drowned their only link to the rest of the world and began their long isolation...