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This sort of language perturbs Wake Forest's Kimball, who recently wrote the book When Religion Becomes Evil. "This is an area that lives with a history of crusades and in the shadow of colonialism," he says. "The image of an overwhelming military power coming in already provokes major questions about deeper U.S. intentions. If you add an aggressive missionary presence, it will be easy to see this as a kind of American Christian triumphalism." Says Azzam Tamimi, director of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought: "Wherever I go, people say, 'Haven't you heard about American missionaries...
...must smell this one!" exclaims maitre fromager and affineur Daphne Zepos, inhaling deeply from a pungent wheel of Tomme au Marc cheese. "It smells like a walk in the forest in October...
Though U.S. Park and Forest Service Rangers are getting used to finding meth labs in places such as Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest, and pot farms everywhere from Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest to California's Sequoia National Park, last week's bust was a first. A hiker had discovered 40,000 lavender-hued opium poppies growing in the Sierra National Forest, south of Yosemite. The plants, enough to yield 40 lbs. of raw opium, were in a clearing on a 3,000-ft.-high slope scorched by a forest fire two years ago. When law-enforcement officers...
...addition to three years as president and chief executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce, Lucey has served as director of community relations at Forest City Enterprises, a real estate company that developed University Park near MIT, and worked in the state legislature...
With the Navy gone, visitors can explore the island's miles of forest roads and drive to the beach of their choosing. A road down the western side of the island passes by 300 empty, ghostlike storage bunkers, where the Navy kept some of its munitions before it left. The silos are now historical relics. But you will find other marks the U.S. military left on the people of Vieques and their land, including an occasional sign that reads, NO TRESPASSING. AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. DANGER. EXPLOSIVES...