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...Increasingly, the forests have been transmogrified into tree farms of numbing uniformity, countless ankle-high seedlings and spindly saplings germinated from seeds selected for their productive capacity. The logging operations have tattered the seamless fabric of old growth that once covered the land. "There are more holes in the blanket than there is blanket," laments BLM biologist Frank Oliver. According to the National Audubon Society, each year enough old-growth trees are taken from the Pacific Northwest to fill a convoy of trucks 20,000 miles long...
...farthest bed next to a window, the sprawled body takes up only a fragment of the cot. Rahmat Hussain, 10, is not the only child on the floor, but he is the most seriously injured. Most of the time, the bandaged wound is covered by a thin, dirty green blanket. With a tentative smile, as if offering a guest a cup of tea, his older brother, Tor Kham, volunteers to pull back the blanket...
...more than a deep breath, then places a hand on the boy's lips to silence him. His hand falls to the boy's chest and lingers there, an offer of consolation. After another nurse arrives and administers morphine, the boy drifts to sleep. His brother pulls the blanket back over his bandages...
...think [the new guidelines] will accomplish the goals of the policy in general, and at the same time, policy will permit certain activities to go forward, which will provide for the public good, but which would have otherwise not been allowed by a blanket provision," says Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder, a committee member...
Worldwide demonstrations, blanket media coverage and a variety of corporate sponsors all marked the 20th anniversary of the first Earth...