Word: forest
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Forty Harvard students cleared 20 cubic yards of trash from the Alewife Reservation-100 acres of swamp, forest and fields housing hundreds of species of animals. They exhumed tires and shopping carts, a 300-pound safe, a steel gallon drum and even a kitchen sink...
...asked Rusty, 29 and from Montana, if he knew where the next "Survivor" series was to be held. He'd heard rumors of Africa or a South American rain forest. Was he worried about existing in a tropical jungle? "Nah. I survive L.A. And that's a real jungle." I wondered if he was your standard unemployed actor, but discovered that he just looked like one. He was a salesman for a trucking company. Apparently life is equally tough for those in L.A. who are not actors...
...government's reasoning is that a bear should live free in a forest, not in a crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching...
California brought out its ace, Jocelyn Forest, who boasts a 0.27 ERA on the season. Harvard kept the score tied for two innings and close for four, but the Golden Bears put the game away with five runs in the fifth for the 8-0 mercy-rule ending...
...many folks in Seattle were buying that. In the past decade, scores of companies have set up shop in Starbucksland for its highly educated work force, tons of cultural and sports offerings, and the whole package cloaked in a magnificent natural setting of forest, mountain and ocean. So what if it rains...