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...current book is a slim 26 pages and targets Peterman's best customers from the good old days. It boasts the same quirky prose (now written by creative director Bill McCullam) and a mixture of old and new merchandise that ranges from an Ecuadorian mountain shirt ($30) to a sidecar motorcycle with "BMW bloodlines...
Quito The Ecuadorian government announced a review of shipping regulations around the Galapagos Islands after an oil tanker ran aground near the rare wildlife archipelago. The Jessica hit a reef near San Cristobal island, causing a 1,200-sq-km oil slick. Although environmentalists expressed relief that favorable winds and currents had limited the amount of oil washing up onto the islands, at least one pelican and two sea gulls are known to have died, and long-term damage could include negative effects on the archipelago?s algae, which form a vital part of the Galapagos food chain...
...early 1990s, John Daly, a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health, discovered that an extract from the skin of a tiny Ecuadorian tree frog was a potent pain killer, some 200 times more effective than morphine--at least in rats. The extract, known as epibatidine, is structurally and functionally similar to nicotine. It seems to prevent the nervous system from processing pain signals by interfering with nicotinic receptors in the brain...
Raphael will travel to the Ecuadorian Amazon in August or September to assist in remote public health education initiatives...
RWAMAGANA,Rwanda--The allegedly corrupt past of former Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad's, a current IOP fellow and Kennedy school alum, reminded me of another piece of modern Harvard lore. The legend goes like this: There was once a Guatemalan military officer studying at the Kennedy school who received not one but two documents on Commencement Day--his diploma and a subpoena to answer to charges of human rights violations...