Word: forested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoys all the soothing relaxation of a bath, which scientific studies have shown to compare favorably with psychoanalysis. But instead of the usual confined surroundings--a steamy, suffocating atmosphere and a view of clammy tiles--imagine the sky above, the good earth below, and miles and miles of California forest stretching out ahead...
...family of the first victim, Yolanda Washington, 20, called her high-living boyfriend a "bad dude" before her body was discovered near Forest Lawn cemetery in suburban Glendale, but police do not regard him as a suspect. Victim No. 5, Kathleen Robinson, 17, a frequent hitchhiker, was found beside a parkway in Los Angeles. The two youngest, Dollie Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, vanished a week before their bodies were found on a trash heap in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Neighbors of the latest victim, Lauren Rae Wagner, 18, a student at a local business college...
...something of a modern mountain man, self-reliant and happiest tramping through the wilderness-"doing an honest day's scouting." As a director of a group of the state's local sports clubs, he works to promote environmental legislation. He marvels, "When you look at a virgin forest after it rains, water runs through the streams clear as gin." Adds Shreve: "I hope and pray my son can enjoy the outdoors the way I have and live as a free person. This may be one of the last places he might do that...
...been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This "sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...