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...disaster carried only by trade winds. With China's economic engine requiring ever more energy, the country is damming a significant part of its length of the Mekong River, threatening fishing and transportation in the five nations downstream. In 1998, China banned some domestic logging to protect its dwindling forests, but the Asian giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle...
Stolen out of the clutches of Wake Forest as a recruit, Wilson decided to don crimson in lieu of basking in the Deacons’ southern climes after a late visit to Cambridge and last-minute call from Walsh...
Maasdorp’s phenomenal year earned her the status of second-team STX/NFHCA Division I All-American. Her record-tying assist came in the Crimson’s first game of the NCAA tournament against eventual champion Wake Forest, by whom they were defeated 7-1 in November...
Making its fourth NCAA appearance and first since 2002, the Crimson was paired against then-No. 3 Wake Forest, the two-time defending national champs...
...Fortunately, there were never any fires, so we had a good time taking care of the forest and the roads and so forth,” Thorndike says...