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...madman, armed to the teeth, holds thousands of people hostage. This is exactly the situation that exists with North Korea; it is holding South Korea and Japan at gunpoint. Etienne Forest Tsukuba, Japan...
...Leslie H. Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who made a speaking tour of mostly business audiences in the Midwest and on the West Coast in December. "They want a smoking gun. It doesn't make a difference when I point out that we have a smoking forest, that it's clear Saddam has these weapons and doesn't want to disarm...
...high ridgeline overlooking the Kern River in the California Sierras, Ruby Johnson Jenkins says she smells trouble. Stretching out before her is a vast panorama of blackened slopes, a grim legacy of the fire last August that burned more than 150,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest. But it isn't the charred timber that makes her wrinkle her nose. The ill odor, she says, is coming from Washington, specifically from President George W. Bush's controversial plan to increase logging in national forests in the name of reducing the risk of fires...
...There are two battles for this forest," says the sprightly Jenkins, 77, who has co-written three books on hiking the Sierras. "The first was the fire itself. Now there's the battle to save the trees." Not everything in the forest burned. Clumps of oaks still show green against the blackened slopes, and the fire stopped short of the ancient stands of sequoias. But among the Forest Service's restoration options is a plan to take out as much as 10 million board feet of timber from Sequoia National Monument. Although some ecologists say it's a necessary treatment...
...facial muscles, for smoothing wrinkles between the eyebrows. But doctors are also using the shots for such "off-label" applications as crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines. If the sight of all those glassy Botoxed faces is giving you a headache, get this: researchers at Wake Forest University found that Botox also staves off migraines in sufferers who can't get relief from other drugs. Expect more Botox approvals...