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...Health Minister Jean-François Mattei says the estimate of 5,000 heat- related deaths is "plausible." Surgeon general Lucien Abenhaïm resigns, citing "the present controversies surrounding the handling of the epidemic linked to the heat wave," but denies responsibility. AUG. 20 France's biggest chain of undertakers, OGF, says more than 10,000 people may have died in the heat wave. President Jacques Chirac returns from a two-week vacation in Canada. AUG. 21 Chirac breaks his silence about the crisis, praising the government's handling of the situation and urging French society to take better...
...outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses...
Since their introduction in 1994, GM foods have been swiftly seeping into our food chain without our even knowing about it. Who would have thought that if you walk down the average supermarket aisle, over 60 percent of the processed food will be made from genetically engineered produce? On the farms themselves, over 81 percent of all soybeans and 40 percent of all wheat grown in the United States this year has been genetically manipulated. There are no labels and no indications that the majority of what we are eating may not be as wholesome and natural as we thought...
...Secret. That Ryan will have trouble fitting in with the posh crowd. That he will get mad and punch some inanimate (and animate) objects. And that it will all wrap up in an emotional scene set to a tender pop ballad from a CD on sale at a record chain near...
...next round of elections a year later. Last week, Hun Sen received a far more orderly mandate in elections that were deemed the cleanest and most peaceful yet, though still marred by intimidation and vote-buying. "Hun Sen is always the Prime Minister," the chain-smoking leader boasted in the wake of his victory. "No one can oust...