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...rainfall since September, timber fires are burning in the north and tinder-dry conditions threaten forests in the south. Soaring temperatures in the central part of Vietnam have unleashed a plague of rice-eating insects, damaging thousands of hectares of paddies. "It's the beginning of everything," Nguyen Lan Chau, vice director of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, says gloomily. (See pictures of the world's water crisis...
...clothed. She arrived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s as a backpacker and almost immediately found herself working for Nineteen 97. It was a bar, restaurant and café located in what was then an obscure back alley downtown, but has since mushroomed into fame as the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district. Garnaut became Nineteen 97's highly visible manager during its heyday as a watering hole for bankers, socialites and local celebrities - a priceless opportunity that gave her contacts with some of the city's most eligible investors. By 1989 she had persuaded enough of them to back...
China lent Tai Shan's and Mei Lan's parents to U.S. zoos for conservation and breeding. The young pandas will become part of a breeding program in their endangered species' native land. About 1,600 giant pandas live in the wild, and another 290 are in captive-breeding programs worldwide, mainly in China...
...Lan and Tai Shan, carried in crates in a special cargo jet, were on their way to China for a special breeding mission in efforts to keep the well-loved but endangered species going. (See pictures of the departing pandas...
...year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate during the send-off, which was covered live on U.S. television. Tai Shan, a 4 1/2-year-old born in Washington, shyly ate a last-minute snack of apples and pears from the hands of his longtime keepers...