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...spring sunlight (this is the Southern Hemisphere) peek through the Ravenea louvelii, the native palm. Lemurs are sleeping this time of day, though, and a sleeping lemur is hard to spot. But then our guide, Marie Razafindrasolo, stops us - perched on a branch some 20 feet up is the black and white indri, the largest of the living lemurs and the symbol of Madagascar. After a few minutes, the indri gives a high-pitched, sustained cry - a spacing call, a warning to any other indri in the area, and a sound that stays with...
...looked like an infinitesimal World War I battlefield. Everywhere was shiny, pockmarked ruin. The bees' guts, which should have been white, were stippled brown with infection. Their sting glands had blackened - a melanization last reported fifty years ago in connection with rare fungal infections. VanEngelsdorp found deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus, and many more. The bees didn't have one disease. They had them...
...market in the States, I would be another rapper, one in a million," Jin says. But in fact there is no rapper quite like him. Jin first came to prominence in 2001, after he won seven consecutive freestyle rap battles (live improvisation contests) on Black Entertainment Television. That led to his becoming the first solo Asian-American rapper signed by a major label (Ruff Ryders). His debut album, The Rest is History, featured big names like Kanye West and Wyclef Jean, and included the taunting single Learn Chinese ("When the pumps go off/ y'all gon' speak Chinese") plus serious...
...more interested in documentary film, and anthropology was a way to do both because I could do a thesis project that was complementary to both fields. They let me do a documentary film based on farm work in South Africa and my written thesis for anthropology was about black empowerment in South Africa.7. FM: Did you always know you’d be an artist? CD: I always knew I would do something creative. I would be no good at any of the other things. I’m just hopeless at science—it was just a question...
...while I may have gotten less inhibited, I never got the dress code. I’m not one for stereotypes, but seriously, theatre kids are asking for it. Donned in an obnoxiously bright red polo, I looked like an over-dyed Easter egg in the field of black pants, black shirts, and black makeup. But I resolved not to become discouraged—my preppy threads would merely aid me in standing out amongst this talented bunch... right? As luck would have it, the Common Casting session I chose to attend was the musicals’ casting. I clearly...