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...look at him when he's talking, they look at me." The theatrical Frenchman admits he sometimes edits Troussier's monologues so the coach doesn't "appear as if he is uneducated. Like the other day, he started talking about the players being like Mount Fuji, a volcano about to erupt or something ... the metaphor made no sense. So I just left that part out." No harm, no foul. "If I were President Bush's interpreter and I was doing this, it would be catastrophic," Dabadie says, "but this is sports. Pfft." Now that Japan...
...rarest bird on earth, the po'ouli, or black-faced honeycreeper, just ended, and researchers in Hawaii were unable to mate successfully two of the three remaining birds in the species. Suffering from habitat loss and disease, the po'ouli faces extinction on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano. Researchers at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project finally captured one of the two remaining females last month. At dusk the female was released into the territory of the only remaining male. But the next morning, the female po'ouli fluttered homeward without ever encountering the unaware male...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH Perched on the verdant slope of an extinct volcano, the luxurious Mount Popa Resort reigns over the Myingyan Plain, offering a stunning view of the gilded spires and pale green walls of the fairy-tale Popa Daung Kalat Temple complex below. A curious joint venture between the forestry department and a Singaporean lumber and construction firm, the eco-refuge nestles among the sandalwood saplings of a newly established forest conservation project...
...Burmese folklore, nats are restless and vengeful spirits, the souls of historical personages who died violently, victims of unjust crimes. If ignored or abused, they can cause serious mishap, but if correctly propitiated they can be persuaded to grant great favors. The place to appease them is an extinct volcano called Mount Popa, at the foot of which a stone sentinel stands guard. A massive pillar of rock riddled with meditation cells and capped with pale green and gold temples, the 737-m-high Popa Daung Kalat, or Popa Crest, shelters 37 of Burma's most powerful nats...
...link Shahpur to a Hindu neighborhood on the other side have been welded shut in a permanent divide. Armed with stones and petrol bombs, the young Muslims from Gujarat's camps and ghettos now look?and think?like their Palestinian counterparts. "Every man and woman here has a volcano in his or her heart," says Qureishi. "If defending our home is terrorism, then terrorism is starting here." Noting that India is home to 150 million Muslims?the second largest community in the world?she warns: "India will explode...