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...outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses...
This summer, with blazes erupting once again across the West--from Arizona to Montana, Idaho, the Pacific Northwest and Canada--the concerns long raised by Covington and others are fueling an intense debate. Should the U.S. Forest Service, in the name of protecting communities and restoring ecological balance, authorize tree thinning on a massive scale? If it does, what size trees ought to be thinned and in what sorts of forests? And if it does not, what are the alternatives...
...long-term investor, the up-front A shares are cheapest. Wake Forest economist Edward O'Neal has proved that over a period of more than seven years, no other load structure can outperform A shares. And if you invest $25,000 or more, most load funds will give you a discount on the up-front sales charge--making A shares the best choice even in the short run. Those discounts, which are not available on B or C shares, are called breakpoints...
...Your article "Long Lives Well Lived" explored the reasons that Asians in certain areas have an exceptional life expectancy [July 21]. I have observed that the Buddhist monks of Thailand's Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role...
...crops either wilted in the heat or ripened prematurely. Although the fires that ravaged countries from Portugal to Poland were brought largely under control, the cost of the heatwave mounted. The death toll - from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached at least 36. In Portugal, which battled devastating forest fires, the government appealed to the E.U. for 31 billion in aid. Spinning Around U.K. David Kelly, the scientist who apparently killed himself after being named as the main source for a BBC report that questioned the government's case for war against Iraq...