Word: forest
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...exorcise the demon, take the money and run. Their supernal powers are all trickery, of course--trapdoors and specters on a stick--but it's a good show. Then they come to a village where the mysteries can't be so easily explained away. Little girls vanish in the forest; trees tiptoe like goblins; a horse devours a child; a wolf can fly. In their newfound terror, the brothers learn a lesson about art and life: there are special effects--and then there is magic...
Less than eight years after amassing over 2,000 square miles of forest land, Harvard will sell two-thirds of its holdings in the United States and New Zealand—a combined area larger than Rhode Island—to the Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the Boston-based investment firm announced Wednesday...
...when the University purchased rights in 2003 to a 468,000-acre swath of New Zealand forest belonging to Maori natives to become the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand, industry sources estimated it sold for more than $600 million...
...rights to about 1,100 square miles of forest land, about 734 of which are in New Zealand...
Paku, who has relatives involved with timber operations in New Zealand, said that the forest industry there, which is fueled to a large extent by Asian demand, has lately been difficult...