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...hear what sounds like screams and gunshots at VIL UYANA, there's no need to panic. The screams are just the local farmers warning each other of elephants, and the gunshots are in fact firecrackers used to scare them away. But what you mostly hear at this stunning new eco-resort in Sri Lanka's dry zone is silence, punctuated only by the calling of kingfishers and the cooing of spotted doves. There are 426 bird species in Sri Lanka, and many of them can be seen here, in this extraordinary nature reserve that also doubles as a superchic hotel...
...Vil Uyana is the first hotel in Sri Lanka to construct a wetland system with lakes, reed beds and imported forest. Accommodation is in vast villas - the bathroom alone, which boasted its own lily pond, was about the size of my apartment. Designed by Sunela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's leading environmental architect, the villas combine wood, granite, thatch and concrete in a haven of elegant simplicity: a haven, in fact, for man and beast...
...Vil Uyana is near some of the richest architectural treasures in the world. Just up the road is Sigiriya, the extraordinary rock fortress built in the 5th century, and widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world. The ruined capitals of Anuradhapura, founded in the 4th century B.C., and 900-year-old Polonnaruwa are a shortish drive away, and so are the cave temples at Dambulla, which date from the 1st century B.C. They're so amazing - and so amazingly well preserved - that you could stay in a hut and be happy. But how much better to return, after...
...this for Iger: at least he is not Eisner, who is to DisneyWar what Cruella De Vil was to 101 Dalmatians. Amazingly, Stewart--Pulitzer-prizewinning author of the insider-trading exposé Den of Thieves--had the cooperation of Eisner and Disney, having approached them in early 2003 to do a book on how Disney was adapting to the changing media world. Eisner granted him interviews; Stewart even wore a Goofy costume at Walt Disney World. But within a few months he had ringside seats as Roy Disney, nephew of founder Walt Disney, launched a shareholder revolt against...
...Rosalind Franklin? The story of her life is short, tragically so, but it doesn't lack for tellers. Was she difficult Rosy, the Cruella De Vil of The Double Helix, who nearly knocked Watson's block off? Was she Dr. R.E. Franklin, the humble supporting player whom Watson and Crick thanked in the second-to-last sentence of their famous article in Nature? Or was she Franklin the feminist icon, the tormented genius who was cheated out of biochemistry's ultimate prize...