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...DEAL WITH THEM For much of the 20th century, Americans treated forest fires as anathema, to be stamped out wherever they occurred. But experts now believe the zero-tolerance approach did more harm than good. Fires are part of the natural rhythm of the forests, clearing out underbrush and giving trees room to grow. You don't really fight wildfires, according to this view; you only postpone them. If we are going to learn how to coexist with fire, here is how we might start...
...BUILD Fire is part of the natural life of a forest, say environmentalists; vacation houses aren't. If you don't put them up, you won't have to save them...
...BURN Fires clean out the forest; let them do their job. With more people than ever living in fire-prone areas, however, that's a tough sell...
Sources: GregAplet, the Wilderness Society; Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University; William Romme, Colorado State University; AP; National Interagency Fire Center; U.S. Forest Service...
...DIED. RACHID ABOU TOURAB, leader of the Armed Islamic Group (gia), which was formed after the Algerian military canceled 1992 legislative elections to prevent an Islamic fundamentalist party from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency...