Word: forested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jasper, which calls itself the Jewel of the Forest, is not a frozen-in-time, bigoted Southern town. Although it is 60% white, Mayor R.C. Horn and other influential political figures are black. But the killing had the potential to reopen a lot of wounds and set whites against blacks. That calm reigned is in significant part because of the Byrd family, which preached harmony and refused to blame the entire white community for the acts of three men. King's father, for his part, apologized to the Byrds for the murder. "Please pray for the Byrd family, who have...
...pool of icy-cold water and...wait a second, isn't this where we left off? Not quite. This time the 24-year-old Titanic star--the world's most famous young leading man--is submerged beneath a gushing waterfall in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, an immense forest reserve crawling with tigers, leopards, elephants and pythons. A doctor also warns of leeches: real ones, not the Hollywood type. But it's 1999, not 1997, and there's more than just dangerous wildlife surrounding DiCaprio these days. His entire world has been saturated with changes since the last time...
...early February, for example, some of the friends who regularly travel with DiCaprio are missing in the park, and one of the star's brawny bodyguards frantically screams out their names while searching for them; they're eventually found unharmed. During another crazed moment, about a dozen save-the-forest protesters attempt to rush onto the set but are held back by armed officials. Meanwhile, studio executives from 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles are on the phone constantly nagging the producer to lobby DiCaprio to wear Puma sandals for a product-placement plug. What makes all this tolerable...
...Oberlin, we asked, How can we design a building like a tree?--a fecund structure that purifies waters and makes oxygen and food," he says. "In Coffee Creek, we asked, What if a town were like a forest?" He envisions the Indiana project as the first step toward creating "a green world with connecting gray zones...
...Return to forest. If at all possible, return to spot where originally cut down trees. Find a large log or two. Go back to dorm room and place wood on top of growing pile of fire material, making sure that the developing structure is stable. (Firewood can be bought at Christy...