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Less than eight years after amassing over 2,000 square miles of forest land, Harvard will sell two-thirds of its holdings in the United States and New Zealand—a combined area larger than Rhode Island—to the Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the Boston-based investment firm announced Wednesday...
...when the University purchased rights in 2003 to a 468,000-acre swath of New Zealand forest belonging to Maori natives to become the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand, industry sources estimated it sold for more than $600 million...
...rights to about 1,100 square miles of forest land, about 734 of which are in New Zealand...
...adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came to die. "Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some 600 feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars," he wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin at the British Museum...
...place will be different," says senior man Johnson Kuanu. Some new things, he told them, would be good, including parts of Christianity, and some bad. "He said we had to be careful." Along a winding track leading from the banyan, a wind-blown cliff looks down to where the forest surges to meet the sand. This is where John Frum is believed to have first appeared, and where the sacred stones he left behind are still watched over. When he disappeared at the end of 1942, he promised to come back one day. "People still hope that he is coming...