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...timpani, horns, and cellos led the march with tragic urgency. During the performance of the final movement, the “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” one could almost feel the spirits passing through the orchestra; each instrument became part of a wild mass that unified in a furious ending, finishing the psychedelic trip, and completing another talent-filled, though not the finest, performance...
...wild-and-crazy guy whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...criteria - a way of passing the responsibility for compliance from the Home Office to the employer. "If an artist doesn't behave, then it's going to reflect on us," Clay says. Of course, in an industry where men and women can twirl machetes blindfolded while standing on wild horses, it's a risk they're happy to take...
...Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation. The sanctuary and hotel properties are home to around 30 elephants, all of which might otherwise be languishing as street beggars. Often, soliciting snacks from urbanites and tourists is the only way an owner can cover the cost of feeding an animal that in the wild eats up to 550 lb. (250 kg), or around 5% of its body weight, each day. (Foreigners may thrill at the sight of an elephant plodding past high-rises, but a smoggy metropolis is not a natural habitat for creatures unused to cars or open manholes.) Hotel guests who want...
...huge and wild Big Island of Hawaii is made up of roughly 4,000 square miles (10,000 sq km) and about a dozen microclimates (including one that generates winter snow), and has about 37 inhabitants per square mile. Not one but five of Pele's volcanoes reside on the island, and one of them, Kilauea, has been continuously erupting since 1983 from a vent known as Pu'u 'O'o. World-class resorts and beaches with black, white or green sand abound, but the real draw for thousands of travelers are the lava spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive...