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...mourns the cutting down of a tree, and he went on to become America's first conservationist President, responsible for five new national parks, 18 national monuments and untold millions of acres of national forest. Without a doubt, he would react toward the great swaths of farmland that are now being carbuncled over with "development" as he did when told that no law allowed him to set aside a Florida nature preserve at will...
...hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's tomb in Moscow. They violated his final wishes. In his will he specified that his ashes be buried in urns on three hilltops in Vietnam, saying, "Not only is cremation good from the point of view of hygiene, but it also saves farmland...
...Miles of middle-American farmland turn into a dust bowl...
Early last Monday morning citizens in central Florida awoke to a scene of destruction. Overnight, a series of nine tornadoes touched down leaving 38 dead, interrupting phone and power utilities and wreaking havoc on a 50-mile swath of farmland and rural townships...
Currently Harvard's only international outpost--if even such a term is appropriate--is Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Housed in a sixteenth-century villa and surrounded by 75 acres of Tuscan farmland, I Tatti is home to the University's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. University officials say that the outposts being considered won't compare...