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When Brazil established the Xingu Indigenous Park in 1961, the reserve was far from modern civilization, nestled deep in the southern reaches of the vast Amazon forest. When I first went to live with the Kuikuro, one of the reserve’s principal indigenous groups, in 1992, the park’s boundaries were still largely hidden in thick forest, little more than lines on a map. Today the park is surrounded by a patchwork of farmland, its borders often marked by a wall of trees. For many outsiders, this towering green threshold is a portal, like the massive gates of Jurassic Park, between the present--the dynamic modern world of soy fields, irrigation systems and 18-wheelers--and the past, a timeless world of primordial nature and society.Long before taking center stage in the world’s environmental crisis as the giant green jewel of global ecology, the Amazon held a special place in the Western imagination. Mere mention of its name conjures images of dripping, vegetation-choked j

NEW YORK (AP) -- The hotel industry is reexamining guest privacy safeguards in light of the case of an ESPN reporter who was videotaped nude through the peephole of her hotel room door, allegedly by a man who reserved an adjacent room....

The international Olympic Committee's reserve fund is still growing despite the global financial crisis. IOC president Jacques Rogge said Wednesday that the committee's reserve fund grew to $455 million at the end of August. At the end of 2001, the fund was... Sponsored Topics: International Olympic Committee - Jacques Rogge - Financial crisis of 2007â??2009 - Barack Obama - Government

Federal Reserve 's massive support. "I see nothing that conflicts with the widely held opinion that we are in recovery," Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig said at an economic co...