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...Ndoki River will open the area to those who would exploit it. The feared road, however, is only a Wildlife Conservation International project to improve marginally a dirt path for moving supplies, and the proposal to clear vegetation from the river is simply a WCI plan to remove some fallen trees so that a pirogue can travel between research camps...
Entering dryer land, we come across disturbing signs that humans are affecting this forest from afar. Everywhere we see fallen Gilbertiodendron dewevrei trees with no sign of regrowth. Fay says this tree species dominates during wet periods and may be dying out because of the long dry spell that has reduced rainfall more than 10% over the past 30 years. Many scientists believe the shortage of rainfall stems from the widespread deforestation by humans in other parts of Africa, which may have changed the continent's weather , patterns. Already the Ndoki is one of the dryest tropical rain forests...
...thugs -- the soccer hooligans of Britain who consecrate their Saturdays to violence. But their battles are ritualistic in their choreographed precision, and the effects on the participants are mind bending as the adrenaline pumps, the fists fly and the boots drive into the sides and skulls of the fallen. "They talk about the crack, the buzz, and the fix," Buford records. "They talk about having to have it, of being unable to forget it when they do, of not wanting to forget it -- ever." After participating in one battle between rival team supporters, Buford recalls the "absolute completeness...
...cops, and arrests are made on the spot. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the CHA for its warrantless searches, but Lane negotiated a consent decree that has allowed his program to proceed unimpeded. The key is resident support, a result of the operation's startling success. Crime has fallen substantially, down about 30% in the 100 buildings swept...
...time at The Crimson my first year. Probably we all did. But some of the moments that shine the brightest in my already hazy memories of that year come from my involvement with The Crimson. The exhilaration of walking home late, late at night, tired but happy, through freshly fallen snow in the moonlight; the flush of confidence while reeling in a story, phone call by phone call; most importantly, the feeling, which had eluded me for so long, that I belonged somewhere...