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...trade has flourished, the supply of wild ginseng has decreased-some experts estimate by as much as 20% during the past decade. Rising prices have encouraged even more ginseng digging, and this has further depleted supplies. So the Government is considering putting wild ginseng on a list of endangered species Washington already requires licenses for exports of wild ginseng, and the brand-new, four-member U.S. Endangered Species Scientific Authority banned exports of wild ginseng altogether last month, but exempts states that require a permit to dig wild roots...
During the 1880s, Bunau-Varilla worked for a private French company that attempted to dig a canal through the muddy, mosquito-filled tropical jungle of Panama, then a province of Colombia. Any canal across Central America would have eliminated the 7,000-mile journey around Cape Horn for ships navigating between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At the time, most U.S. engineers favored a canal at sunny Nicaragua. The crossing there would have been 131 miles longer than at the 50-mile Isthmus of Panama. But almost all of the extra miles would have required no digging, since a Nicaraguan...
...with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many of the 33,600 American Zonians. "I'm not leaving my garden to some Panamanian," she says. "Before I go, I'm going to throw all my plants and rocks into the canal...
Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road, cut by eight bulldozers near the fire's northern edge. West wanted to save an additional 25,000 acres of wilderness that forms the Carmel Valley Watershed; the effort failed, and now the water supply for 20,000 people around Monterey is threatened...
...early sequence against a scholar from the Louvre (Max von Sydow), who believes that the recovery of a few life-enriching shards of history and art is well worth the loss of hundreds of Legion and Arab lives. "We're both in the grave business," sneers Hackman. "You dig them up and I fill them in." Later, Von Sydow seems to lose the thread of the argument and takes to sitting in corners and gazing hungrily at Deneuve...