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...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
Once local authorities started cooperating, Giordano's efforts paid off dramatically. Before she began monitoring the poachers, more than 5,000 supposedly protected birds--mostly honey buzzards, falcons, storks, orioles, kestrels and swallows--were slaughtered each year. Today the count averages less than 100 in Sicily, although more than 500 on the Calabrian side of the straits. On a recent tour of saltwater lakes on the outskirts of Messina, Giordano proudly pointed to the dozens of cormorants perched on wooden posts in the shallow water. "Twenty years ago," she says, "you would not have seen even one cormorant here. People...
Soon it becomes clear that while John McCain has written a best-selling book about his father, he may have chosen to write about the less interesting parent. While the man she still calls Johnny was taking his campaign bus through South Carolina, his mother was on another one of her three-month jaunts around the world, which she often takes with her twin sister Rowena. Her latest trip took her to India, the Netherlands, Singapore, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, among other places. And she doesn't take the touring coach. As might be expected of the mother...
...BANKING American Express has bought 4,562 more ATMs, which brings the travel-card company's total to almost 9,000. Some of these ATMs are in less than exotic locales like 7-Elevens and malls. Why? The company is planning to push into lowbrow but high-margin financial services such as wire transfers, money orders and check cashing. You'll be able to dash in for a Slurpee and a cash advance at the same time. There will be no user surcharge for AMEX banking customers and card members. Others will pay a fee that should average about...