When Lente bought the Zimbabwean elephants, Johann hired their former owner, Rory Hensman, to look after them.

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Pearl earrings gleaming, red lipstick perfectly applied, Lente Roode is feeding her cheetahs.

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Amid the bustle of a hospital, it can look a lot like lente, a generic name for an older type of insulin.

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Camp Jabulani has been a personal effort for Lente, who chose not to use an architect but instead collaborated with a local decorator and a builder.

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Camp Jabulani has been an intensely personal effort for Lente, who chose not to use an architect but instead collaborated with a local decorator and a builder.

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"For two months I could do nothing, " Lente recalls.

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Until recently the reserve, 280 miles north of Johannesburg, pumped out enough revenue from its admission fees, wildlife-viewing drives, curio sales and guest lodges to maintain not only itself but also Lente's pet projects.

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Now Lente's running the operation herself.

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In green architecture news, a New York architect has come up with a proposal to blanket the unsightly West Side Highway with air-cleaning ivy and dramatic waterfalls, while in Sarajevo, we saw the opening of the winding Festine Lente pedestrian bridge.

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