Word: serengeti
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...elucidate the meaning of life. I wanted to be a renowned biologist who carefully balanced his knowledge of the natural world with an eye toward the apparent diversity of human experience. Happily, I told my friend Matt, "I want to be an anthropologist!" as visions of voyages to the Serengeti Plain danced in my head...
Lewis' first step abroad was to Bophuthatswana, in South Africa. In 1991 Lewis, who by then had started a company named the Plantworks, was hired to decorate a new entertainment complex called Lost City. She produced an indoor mock version of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Since then she has created artificial environments for casinos in Switzerland, Peru, Aruba and the Philippines. Plantworks has grown into a company employing 21 workers and chalking up annual sales of $2 million, as much as 20% of that abroad; president Lewis thinks it may double sales every year for the next five years...
...life. There are four unique human gifts and three common mistakes and...but who's counting? A reader who can hack through this verbiage will realize soon enough that it serves only to obscure old-fashioned notions that have sustained families since they first wandered out of the Serengeti. Think before you speak. Plan ahead. Try to see the other guy's point of view. Tell the truth. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything. Moderation in all things. To thine own self be true...
...gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo, which houses both meerkats and lions in its "Lion Overlook." At the San Diego Wild Animal Park's new "Heart of Africa" exhibit, guests can participate in field experiments and get up close and personal with some animals. Hurry! Disney...
...disease-battling immune systems--both for humans and for other animals. Epstein, who is one of the principal authors of the upcoming WHO study, notes that in recent years variants of the class of viruses that includes measles have killed seals in the North Sea, lions in the Serengeti and horses in Australia--three very different animals widely scattered around the globe...