Word: eucalyptus
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...miasma of death hangs over the village of Nyarubuye, overpowering the scent of the surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting...
...Election Day, Riordan, wearing a yellow jersey and crash helmet, rested on his racing bike in a eucalyptus-shaded lane near his Spanish-stucco mansion. He lives alone because his three daughters are grown and he is separated from his second wife. ("Did you see Michael Ovitz go by before?" he asked proudly. "He lives around the corner. So does Meryl Streep, and Michelle Pfeiffer.") Riordan said he intends to form an administration not of "technocrats," a breed he abhors, but of "doers and implementers." However, he said, "I am not such an amateur that I'm going to ignore...
NESTLED IN A STAND OF FRAGRANT EUCAlyptus trees at the Embarcadero Road entrance to the campus of Stanford University is a billboard advertising the home schedule of the varsity football team. But the larger-than-life image on the billboard that causes motorists to pause is that of a man with a mane of white hair beckoning them to turn in on a Saturday afternoon, park their cars, fill the 85,500 seats at Stanford Stadium and watch him lead the local student athletes to the promised land. Which, in the vernacular of Stanford football, means the Rose Bowl game...
...Amazon? The big polluters are hiding behind these two words." In fact, a wood-pulp producer in the Amazonian state of Para has described as "sustainable development" a plan to clear-cut 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of virgin tropical forest and replant the area with eucalyptus trees...
...your neighborhood. Your neighbors. Thirty years ago, that's what 12-year-old John Harrison had in his mind as he pedaled his bicycle from the gritty flatlands of north Oakland uphill to Lake Temescal. Nestled in a gentle curve of hills and shaded by fragrant eucalyptus, many of the well- tended homes offered postcard views of San Francisco Bay. To Harrison and thousands of others, the enclaves -- Upper Rockridge, Montclair, Broadway Terrace, Hiller Highlands -- were about as close to heaven as anyone could get and still be earthbound...