I'm an American journalist traveling way outside my comfort zone, living for half a year in Tanzania and trying to cast a fresh pair of eyes on the complexities of development in one of the poorest places in the world.

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21st February 2010

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Leiningen Versus The Ants. →

In case anybody needs a good Sunday afternoon Man Vs. Nature read, I’m posting the Carl Stephenson’s classic 1938 short story “Leiningen Versus The Ants.” Seventh grade English, Mr. Bradshaw, anyone? Some of you may remember. It reads a little dated but it’s hard not to be riveted by a story about a column of carniverous ants 10 miles long and 2 miles of wide. Little did I know this story would one day ring alarmingly true…..

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