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Eighty-four-year-old South African tobacco baron Anton Rupert returned last week from a grand tour of Europe. But he didn't buy any paintings. He was collecting money, lots of it, from corporate and personal friends for what will be some of the largest tourist attractions on Earth. His organization, the Peace Parks Foundation, has brought the idea of the transborder park to southern Africa, where it has the potential to spark a socioeconomic transformation of the region...
...from a backyard cigarette factory, has been a crusader in enlightened business practices. His company led the way in establishing pay and fringe-benefits standards for black workers during the apartheid years. Now, with the ambitious conservation project roaring to life, he has earned a new kind of title: Anton Rupert, bio-diplomat...
...next played Anton Webern's Vier Stcke, op. 7, a work the composer wrote in 1910 under the influence of his teacher, Schoenberg. These pieces reveal how quickly Webern embraced his teacher's concept of a completely atonal music, which had only fully materialized a year earlier with Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11. Webern's pieces, however, already point to a more abstract atonality and are characteristically Webernesque in their brevity and obsession with detail. Schulte and Winn played the faster movements especially well, again showing a real sense of musical unity...
...Elian: Hervey Villechez (Tattoo) Juan Miguel Gonzalez (Father): Mr. "T" Lazaro Gonzalez (Great-Uncle): Gonzo (the Muppet) Marisleysis Gonzalez (Second Cousin): Phyllis Diller Armando Gutierrez (Family Spokesman): Peter Lorri Greg Craig (Father's Lawyer): Sting Janet Reno: B.B. King Fidel Castro: John Lovitz Donato Dalrymple: Robert Anton Wilson Diane Sawyer: Louis Black Bill Clinton: Gary Oldman Al Gore: Walter Mondale...
Researchers expect to continue uncovering a wealth of bones in Europe and are encouraged by the treasures at Dmanisi. "Certainly if they [H. erectus] were out that early, they've got to be other places as well," says Susan Anton, a University of Florida anthropologist and co-author of the Science paper. "It's just a matter of finding them...