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...Dutchman eventually tracked down his marmosets to a black-water branch of the Amazon, 200 miles southeast of Manaus. A farmer pointed toward the edge of the forest, where five marmosets happily snacked on the resin of a morototo tree. On later visits, Van Roosmalen noticed that the soil of this farm was 3 1/2 ft. deep and richer than any he knew of in the Amazon, where the earth is sandy and gives out after a couple of years, forcing farmers to raze hundreds of square miles of rain forest every year...
...before Feb. 24? Why weren't the pilots aided by U.S. planes, who were already in the vicinity, on alert? Why was notification from a U.S. Customs officer in California's March Air Force Base, the equivalent of a 911 call, brushed off by the commanding officer at the Southeast Air Defense Sector at Tyndall Air Force Base, who was also monitoring radar reports? These questions stem from testimony given before the National Transportation Safety Board on June 27, 1996, yet further delays and equivocations by the Clinton Administration have provoked the anger and frustration of the Cuban-American community...
...push to increase African studies offerings at Harvard, a group of students have started a weekly class in Igbo, the language and culture of southeast Nigeria...
...American Camping Association has confirmed the trend: 30% of camps in the area are already filled, while 60% are more than three-quarters full. Reasons: a booming economy and more working parents who need a spot for their kids. Matters are less tight in the mid-Atlantic, the Southeast and especially the West. But the advice to parents is clear: Get going...
Between 2000 and 2339: geographical diversity prevails. The Southeast and a large swath of the Rockies will go for Scenario B (early marriage, no divorce). Oregon, California and New York will offer renewable marriages, and a few states will go monosexual, as in Scenario A. But because of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, each state is entitled to recognize only the kinds of "marriages" it approves of, so you will need a "marriage visa" to travel across the country, at least if you intend to share a motel room...