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...grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings low and use unobtrusive lighting," she explains. "That way the turtles don't get disoriented on their way to the water...
...take controversial and sensitive issues seriously and resort to professionals or peer counselors only when out of my depth, (and don't worry, I'll be sure to let you know the difference between my opinions and those of the pros.) Perhaps because I've been blessed with an ability to laugh at myself in embarrassing situations, I will be less likely to laugh...
Editors said PRS is both an honored and feared presence in the production room. He torments slow writers, proofers and assistant night editors, but is always their last resort when problems arise...
...Japan, Korea and Russia. Currency devaluations in those countries have made their products cheap for American buyers, says chairman Ken Iverson. "The U.S. is the only economy left that's doing well, so they're going to ship it all here." That makes America the consumer of last resort--a lifeline to many foreign economies, but at a heavy cost to many U.S. companies and workers. Again, such disruptions quickly get capitalized into stock prices: Nucor shares have fallen from $61 a year ago to $39 last week...
...more the sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the Lewinsky scandal, and many are concerned that his personal stature and moral authority are seeping away. His attention to foreign affairs has always been intermittent but surely diminishes the more time he must spend with his lawyers...