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...available for hire by the Federal Government to douse flames with water and fire-retardant chemicals. Because of crashes and other malfunctions, just 10 tankers are now active, and only seven are considered safe enough to fly over populated areas, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. A U.S. Forest Service executive says there are alternatives to the tankers, including 88 smaller, single-engine planes and 700 helicopters ready for action, if needed. If not, there are always those rain dances. -By Jeffrey Ressner
...Area of Amazon rain forest destroyed from August 2003 to August 2004?the second largest figure since data was first compiled...
...Midwest Association of Independent Camps, says community-service camps are the hottest development in the field. Particularly popular, other experts say, are those programs in which participants travel to remote parts of the U.S. and to foreign countries to help local populations. Last summer Ryan McNeill, 16, of Lake Forest, Ill., went to Costa Rica with the Road Less Traveled. At a cost of $3,995 for 22 days, McNeill and his group stayed in a small town and made improvements to the local school, replacing the roof and building bathrooms. "It was a chance to see another country from...
...happy medium, as some camps have discovered, is combining specialty pursuits with old-fashioned recreation, creating a balance between work and play. At Emagination Computer Camps, which has locations in Waltham, Mass., Atlanta, Lake Forest, Ill., and the suburbs of Philadelphia, kids spend the day in three tech workshops, choosing among such options as building PCs, designing computer games and wiring toy robots. But they are also required to participate in one session a day of what the camp calls retro games. Among them: Ultimate Frisbee, kickball and swimming. Ah, wilderness! --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago and Rebecca Winters/Los Angeles
...pitched only the fifth. Herrmann was the only hurler not to surrender a run…Farkes extended his hitting streak to 12 games…Walsh confirmed yesterday that Thomas Stack-Babich, a 6’3, 200-lb. freshman outfielder from Scituate, Mass., will transfer from Wake Forest to Harvard prior to his sophomore year. “I think it’s the same kind of story with Mike Morgalis [who transferred from Notre Dame],” Mann said. “He can come from a good baseball school and make a make...