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...shooting script of 180-plus pages--which would indicate a running time of more than three hours. And that's not including the scenes Malick has been adding and improvising since the movie's scheduled five-month shoot got under way late last June in the Daintree rain forest near Port Douglas, Australia, which is doubling for Guadalcanal. Later, the crew will depart for the island itself to shoot scenes involving a sojourn among the native Melanesians. All in all, it's a daunting undertaking for any director, let alone one who hasn't voluntarily worked in two decades...
When another company, Hard Candy, launched a male line, Candy Man, in January, Neiman Marcus ordered all it could get--and sold out. Today Candy Man colors like Testosterone (metallic silver), Dog (deep purple) and Oedipus (forest green) are distributed in 120 department stores and 40 men's boutiques nationwide...
...foundation has since provided money for the Western Samoan village of Tafua to preserve its 20,000-acre rain forest. It helped persuade Congress to authorize the National Park of American Samoa--about 10,000 acres of forest and 420 acres of coral reefs in the neighboring archipelago. And it has helped villages build schools, medical clinics and cisterns to catch rainfall, the main source of drinking water...
...Falealupo, the foundation paid for the construction of a series of connected platforms and a walkway 200 ft. high between two huge trees at the edge of the forest. Administered by villagers, the aerial complex has brought in about $1,000 a month from tourists and school groups since it opened, profit that the villagers use to maintain the forest. "This is the first time these people have made money from the forest without destroying it," says Cox. "If they keep making this kind of money and other villages hear about it, the forests will be saved...
...your basic lab experiment, akin to those bubbling in high school chemistry labs every week. In this case, the goal was to determine whether plant samples from the Ecuadorian rain forest contained chemical properties that could be used to combat diabetes. Immerse the leaves in an alcohol extract, then a water extract, and see what happens...