Word: forest
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...puppies and teddy bears. The marketing can get desperate: a Denver furniture company advertises its mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep." Maureen Wilkinson, owner of Acorn Travel in River Forest, Ill., sharpened her sales pitch. "Are you uncomfortable leaving your family behind?" asked the ad. "Take them with you! Family reunions are great fun on an Alaskan Cruise...
...Those of us who worked in Cambodia in the early 1970s as the noose tightened around Phnom Penh knew little of the Khmer Rouge. They were not like the North Vietnamese communists who held press receptions in Paris. When a few of our colleagues ventured into the forest on the promise of friendly contact with the Khmer Rouge, they never returned...
Nine women managed to stop the logging of Californias Headwaters Forest by stripping off their shirts and showing their breasts. While loggers stared, they halted work...
...couldn't do it now, because I don't think it would be the right thing to do." That epiphany came 15 years ago at a conference of chimpanzee experts in Chicago, when speaker after speaker documented the devastation that had been wrought by hunting, trapping, the destruction of forests and laboratory research. "I suddenly realized that I couldn't just go on sitting in my forest paradise. I had to try and do something about it," she says. It was then that she became a salesman for the cause...
...being the highest earner on, say, Michigan TV WARREN BUFFET American billionaire buys Fruit of the Loom; during due diligence finds out the giant grape, banana and apple costumes not part of deal PINK FLOYD '70s rockers say pressing new CD will damage environment so they'll plant a forest. We've thought of another solution: no new CD Losers MICHAEL JACKSON Stores cancel 50% of orders for Jacko's $30 million album Invincible. Rejected titles: Indigestible, Unrecognizable, Inflammable MANOLO BLAHNIK Shoe designer pulls dangerous titanium stiletto heels from latest collection. He wasn't fooled by 19 orders from...