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RORAIMA, BRAZIL The Amazon Jungle The Yanomami tribe, which has no calendar, will ignore the millennium and most likely go to bed early in their thatched huts --Free --About 20,000 Yanomami remain...
...cookie is an identifying number, like a cyber fingerprint, that alerts a server to your presence. Whoever sent the cookie can monitor where you go on the Web, what you click on, what you read, what you buy and what you don't buy. Some sites, including Amazon, maintain strict privacy policies that promise to guard the data being gathered. But advertising networks like DoubleClick have openly built a business around finding out what they can about you and passing it on to advertisers...
...character offers up her shirt to shelter the group's campfire. But just when it seems like there will be some gratuitous seminudity, the scene devolves into a gruesome amputation ending in death. Plus, she gets her shirt back by the following scene. And when these women enter the Amazon, they get wet only up to the waist. It's like a whole show of nothing but lifeguard rescues. "One of the challenges we face is to keep the historical and anthropological interest alive while also having beautiful women in jeopardy," explains Benchley. How about you just find deeper rivers...
...produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world's biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture...
Known for the novels and screenplays that have spawned such movies as Jaws and the TV series Peter Benchley's Amazon, the author has narrated dozens of films on ocean conservation. Join TIME.com to talk to Peter Benchley on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. E.T. at chat.yahoo.com/time