Word: forested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...galloping egotism from the '70s, why shouldn't the flashiest tour in Los Angeles mix camp nostalgia with giddy grave robbing? And why shouldn't a necromantic like Greg Smith, Grave Line's ! "director of undertakings" and occasional tour guide, make some clean money washing his Forest Lawndry in public? Grave Line is a haunt and a howl for children of all ages and no taste. "It's like being in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland," gushes Beth Arrowsmith, a passenger on today's field trip. It's educational as well. "When you're considering real estate," opines stockbroker Kimberly...
...forces closed in on the hospital where Kouchner was working, the doctors asked to evacuate their patients. The Red Cross ordered them to stay on the grounds that they would be safer in a hospital under the Geneva Conventions. As the troops drew near, many patients bolted into the forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging out as they ran." Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool...
...years about the possibilities of the greenhouse effect, but politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
When a fungal disease began ravaging Levy Bryant's four-hectare cacao farm a decade ago, the landowner could have done what other besieged farmers have | done. He might easily have picked up an ax and begun cutting down more tropical rain forest around his land on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He could have sold the timber from the tall laurel trees that shade the cacao bushes, then burned the dense virgin forest on the hill behind his farm. Then Bryant, like so many financially strapped small farmers in Latin America, could have sown pasture and sold the land...
...encroachment of cow pastures on the cloud forest at Monteverde spurred another of Costa Rica's efforts to save its natural heritage. In 1972, 350 hectares of land owned by American Quakers who had settled the region in the 1950s were set aside as a private reserve. Over the years that has grown to 10,500 hectares. One key to preserving this huge area was to allow local people to develop a tourist business. In five years the annual number of visitors has gone from 6,000 to 15,000, and could climb to more than 30,000 when...