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Television game-show host Bob Barker, 70, describing how he became involved with "Price is Right" model Dian Parkinson. Barker said he decided to disclose the affair, which he said lasted from 1989 to 1991, because Parkinson was threatening to sue him for sexual harassment unless she was paid $8 million...
...with Rwanda's majority Hutu tribe. The marauding insurgents have threatened the lives of the gorillas (only 300 remain in the sanctuary) by driving out game wardens and destroying habitat. Moreover, they have ransacked a research center that was run for nearly two decades by the American naturalist Dian Fossey. Her pioneering work with the great apes was made famous in the film Guerrillas . . . make that Gorillas in the Mist...
...starters, take a charismatic scientist in west Africa, someone whose fictional career parallels Jane Goodall's or Dian Fossey's. Eugene Mallabar began by making scrupulous and original studies of chimpanzees during the 1950s and became a celebrity when his first best seller, The Peaceful Primate, was published. Documentaries, TV shows, citations and honorary degrees -- even a national park -- all followed, and Mallabar grew rich...
...DARK ROMANCE OF DIAN FOSSEY by Harold T.P. Hayes...
...dominant male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted the generalization. In 1966 Leakey sent Dian Fossey to the Congo slope of the Virunga volcanic forest to study the habits of the mountain gorilla. Fossey convinced the eminent prehistorian of her resolve with only a few free-lance articles she had written for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her previous job was as an occupational therapist...