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...forests that have evolved without fire," says Nels Johnson of Washington's World Resources Institute. "There is no historical precedent for the fires in the cloud forests of the Lacondon region of Mexico." Fire storms in the rain forests--the very idea defies common sense--have become an unmistakable distress signal from the developing world...
...driven by an intense desire for companionship and that, without this simple necessity, humans are bound to feel miserable. In "Shipmates Down Under," a father and son explore the realm of unspoken filial connections, discovering the faith that each has in the other in a time of family distress...
Would it have been better in The Graduate if the church door had held, and Dustin Hoffman had not been able to burst in on the scene and whisk Katharine Ross away? In which circumstance would the damsel have been in greater distress? Does love really conquer all? That, I always thought, was the point of the movie...
...when she learned she was pregnant by Hoare. "She wanted the baby. 'Suppose it's a girl,' she said, distraught at what she knew she had to do," Campbell says. "What Diana 'had to do,'" the friend says, "was to have an abortion... So Diana, tearfully and in distress, sacrificed the baby she wanted," Campbell writes. Buckingham Palace declined comment on the book...
...insult his hair and poke fun at his syrupy songs, but unless you want bellyaching from MICHAEL BOLTON, don't cast aspersions on his charity. The New York Post reported that the Michael Bolton Foundation, which purports to help women and children in distress, in 1995 gave away only 15% of the money it raised. The 1996 figures were missing. Bolton, who said the allegations made him "sick to [his] stomach," immediately hired a crew of suits, including an emergency spin doctor, to clear things up. Meanwhile, the charity announced that expenses were high in 1995 because of fund-raising...