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...Steven C. Wofsy, Rotch professor of atmospheric and environmental science, calls it "user-hostile...
...that spit out salt, giant tortoises that can weigh 500 lbs. and blue-footed boobies that woo mates with a bizarre display of stamping, flapping and whistling. The animals of the Galapagos are unique in their trust of human beings. "It's very moving," says Jelle Z. de Boer, professor of earth science from Wesleyan. "And it provides a lesson in what mankind has done to nature elsewhere...
Derrick's pleasure in recalling his own trip to East Africa with W & L two years ago inspired him to sign on with his grandsons this year, the first time the university has opened up the trip to youngsters. Escorted by science professor Steven Desjardins, the group will safari into the great parks of Tanzania to see animals most Americans have viewed only in captivity or as cartoons. Children have an affinity for other children, so the itinerary also includes young humans--the travelers spend a day at a school in Arusha and share a meal of porridge and vegetables...
JOEL KOVEL Marxist-studies professor PRIORITIES Ending global warming through industrial reform; universal health care LATEST BOOK Red Hunting in the Promised Land...
...pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...