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...prizewinning author and a director of the World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...
...method is to rely on scores of diaries, letters and other records from visitors down the years. Tobias Smollett, a pugnacious British writer whose Travels through France and Italy became a best seller in 1766, put Nice on the map by depicting the lush beauty of the Med to rain-soaked readers back home. Almost as memorable are some of the eyewitness contributions by American fans of Nice. They range from 14-year-old Henrietta Maria Schroeder of Boston, who in the 19th century was refused entry to the nearby gaming rooms of the Monte Carlo casino; through Elizabeth Foster...
...Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it--bingo! more power to you. A wonderful dour tribe, the Scots, and the right to groan and moan is sacred in Scotland. Here we have been duped out of it by the people who gave us aromatherapy and seaweed wraps...
...change their habits," says Dr. John Shanley, director of the infectious disease division at the University of Connecticut in Farmington. That means wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants and using insect repellent during mosquito season. You should also practice mosquito control around your house. Clean out the rain gutters, remove old tires, and drain birdbaths or anything else that collects water where mosquitoes can breed. You can never eliminate risk, but in this case at least, you can control...
...David + David to his gig co-writing Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, Baerwald has written about the misery of life and the imperative to go on. On Here Comes the New Folk Underground, his first album in 10 years, Baerwald remains the prince of rain, singing "Love is eternal as long as it lasts/ Good times come, then they pass." The lyrical dourness is leavened by a great shock of musical energy. Baerwald moves among roots, gospel, pop, rock and even cabaret songs with such ease that you might believe he's actually--gasp!--enjoying himself...