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...zone where birds from upland peaks mingle with lowland species. For many years the Manu held the record for sightings of different species in a single day: 331. With no effort whatsoever, we spotted more than 100 species in the course of five days. A short canoe ride from the Manu Lodge, visitors can see the nesting sites of hoatzins, perhaps the world's strangest birds. The floppy, pheasant-sized avians have three stomachs, like cows; the young defend themselves by diving from their nests into the water. When danger has passed, they use hooks on the leading edge...
...exuberantly colored and gregarious macaws, however, are the celebrity fauna of the region. During a three-hour motorized canoe ride up the Manu River, we saw 327 of the loquacious birds in a scintillating array of colors: red and green, blue and yellow, scarlet. Munn estimates that each macaw in the $ region could generate between $750 and $4,700 a year in tourist revenue -- far more over the bird's lifetime than if the animals were caught and sold...
...year-old woman was on business in Tampa last year for the Florida supreme court. Stranded at the courthouse, she accepted a lift from a lawyer involved in her project. As they chatted on the ride home, she recalls, "he was saying all the right things, so I started to trust him." She agreed to have dinner, and afterward, at her hotel door, he convinced her to let him come in to talk. "I went through the whole thing about being old-fashioned," she says. "I was a virgin until I was 21. So I told him talk...
...Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist Robert Morris: "Somehow I just can't picture Buster and Betty Lunchbucket of Racine, Wis., along with all the little Lunchbuckets, lining up to get in touch with their...
...Desmond decided to attend Loyola College because it gave him a full scholarhip--a fact which he conveniently omitted from his half-baked indictment of Harvard education. It seems that both his parents are on the faculty of Loyola, and all children of professors there get a free ride. This fact was not mentioned in the Op-Ed piece, making it look like Desmond had chosen Loyola over Harvard, Yale and Princeton on merits alone. How enlightening. Maybe the Times should print news stories on their Op-Ed contributors more often...