Word: forest
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...April of 2002, members of the environmental activist organization Greenpeace engaged in a routine demonstration. Two activists boarded a freighter off Miami that was believed to be carrying mahogany from a protected Brazilian forest, intending to unfurl a banner that read “President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging.” But before they could do so, they—along with four other activists—were detained, arrested and sentenced to time served. Case closed, right? Wrong...
...1970s. Even after 30 years, the tower of Maine-Montparnasse, a 209-m monstrosity jutting out of a decrepit esplanade atop the Montparnasse train station on the Left Bank, has few friends. And in the 19th arrondissement, a working-class district in the east of the city, a forest of high-rise apartment blocks has made a cruel joke of the Place des Fêtes, a "festival square" where an infernal wind whips across an artless expanse of concrete. More of that? No thanks, say many Parisians. "Do we really have to leap into an infantile contest of verticality...
...That?s what men said, in a defensive, defiant or ironic voice. The magazine had text too, though it wasn?t likely to be thumb-tacked to a fraternity wall. ?You can?t see the forest for the tease,? Ray Bradbury said on ?Playboy?s 50th Anniversary Party,? a self-celebrating special on A&E. Forget about the naked ladies. Let?s talk about Playboy: The Words...
Down a dirt road, tucked in rolling fields, John Nutting's farm is a picture of tranquillity. A wintry breeze sighs through the forest. Black-and-white Holsteins chew their cuds in a lazy rhythm. Only the large sign hammered onto a red barn attests to the defiant mood in Maine dairy country: OUR PLEDGE--NO ARTIFICIAL HORMONES...
...that's just the start of an $89 million program of attractions - from a 4,000-sq-m sculpted forest suspended (upside down, at that!) above the city streets to nightly pop, rock, rap and techno concerts; 2,130 events in all - designed to bring tourists flocking to Lille. Not that it has any shortage of visitors...