May 26, 2003
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Sue Scheff, a docent at the Arizona-Sonora desert museum, told me about how a Kangaroo rat has the best hearing of all animals, and can go it's entire without drinking flowing water, and somehow she started telling me about how "Costa Rica in the 40's did away with their military and put the money into education. Now it has 95% literacy and a third of its land is preserved. They love their land; they take care of it."