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Perhaps the ultimate protection against species extinction is what the San Diego scientists call their Frozen Zoo. More than just a sperm bank, it is a repository of fibroblast cells taken from the connective tissue of hundreds of exotic wild animals, ranging from Sumatran tigers to Uganda's pygmy chimps. These cells, which are easier to store and grow than most, are kept in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of -196° C ( - 320° F) against the day when technology will be ready to reawaken them. Says San Diego's Benirschke: "We could probably get along...
...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca. Privateers from Malaysia and Khmer Rouge hijackers from Cambodia prey on Vietnamese refugee boats drifting across the Gulf of Thailand. One Japanese cargo line considers southern Philippine waters so dangerous that it has ordered its ships bound for Indonesia to detour westward into...
...problem on the entire island of Java, where 60% of the nation's population lives (and where the density is 1,500 people per sq. mi.). Accordingly, the government is urging the Javanese to migrate to the less-populous outer islands. A highway is being built through the Sumatran jungle, for example, that will open up vast sections of the big island, which is 1½ times the size of Japan...
Fully 7,000 more Chinese are waiting in the North Sumatran port of Medan for a Red Chinese ship that Peking has promised to send, but it can only carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read...
INDONESIA. The dinner menu is a table d'hote Indonesian feast (Kambing Masak Bugis, Ajam Panggang) served by candle light while Balinese and Sumatran dancers perform to the twangs and gongs of the gamelan orchestra...