Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irritated New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and for that alone was deemed worthwhile by the citizens.) People seem to take pleasure in BASE jumping in the same way, I suppose, that Romans liked watching gladiators. The potential opportunity to observe a fellow human die at a moment of wild exhilaration, or live through such a moment, brings one back to a kind of basics...
...shaky Latin America, the Fed chairman isn?t anxious to raise rates. But some of his FOMC colleagues at that big mahogany table have been getting antsy about the Fed?s turning into a paper tiger, kowtowing to the stock market and letting the economy run wild and free. This week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just no justification for a hike right now," says Baumohl, and plenty of reasons for maintaining the status quo ? mainly that a tightening in the U.S. could make things difficult for neighbors to the south. "The Asian...
Signature Shades: Custom-made oval shades in Wild Wild West, which opened last week...
Another sign of change is found in many of South Africa's national game parks, in which travelers can take a walk in the wild under the supervision of trained game rangers. Near Vendaland, in the northern part of Kruger National Park, which marks its centennial this year, Chief Joao Makuleke and his tribe have reclaimed ancestral land on which they will be allowed to operate tourist lodges in cooperation with the private sector and the park's board. In a similar land-restitution deal in the northwestern Cape's Kalahari Gemsbok Park, descendants of the San, or bushmen, will...
Besides undertaking its community-based initiatives, the government is cooperating with the private sector to develop ventures that will maintain South Africa's position as a world leader in wildlife and environmental conservation. For dedicated and affluent wild-animal watchers, the $40 million Cape Wildlife Reserve, with more than 60,000 acres of the Klein Karoo, east of Cape Town, will open in January 2000. The luxury game reserve, which will include executive lodges, a resort and a conference center, is reintroducing Africa's popular Big Five--elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards--from overstocked game parks elsewhere...