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At a recent Sunday-night rave in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park?a weekly event growing exponentially in size?revelers who partied until dawn left a mountain of water bottles and other trash scattered over the sidewalks and grass. And that pretty much sums up how the message sent by these...
It could all have gone so wrong. The 1,192 islands scattered across the equator, south of India, were first "discovered" in 1971 by Italian travel agent George Corbin. Attracted by his tales of pristine waters, dazzling beaches and natural offshore aquariums, a party of Italian journalists accompanied him on...
Van Schaik, seeking to find that control group of orangutans to answer those great questions about men and monkeys that could only be answered here in the wild, crossed the Simpang-kiri river, persuading the illegal loggers to give him rides through unending kilometers of rotting stumps and splintered branches...
X-RAY VISION Today's preferred technology for looking through things is the same one Wilhelm Roentgen used to photograph the bones in his wife's hand in 1895, although the newest X-ray devices are considerably more powerful. Last September, for example, the U.S. Customs Service placed an order...
It has been a wild ride. As chairman, Bourland, who has a business degree from Black Hills State University, took stock of his tribe's assets. "We had no timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging...