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...economy were recent immigrants, fleeing the poverty of their native Madura, desperate for work. At the site of the largest massacre, Parenggean, the town's main industry was controlled by the Madurese loggers. To make matters worse, a Forestry Department official says, the Madurese had persisted in logging forest that was sacred to the Dayaks. Now the sawmills in the town are quiet and rows of huge logs lie abandoned...
...have had the cushion burned away, a blackened, desiccated corpse arches in agony. Nine people died in the vehicle, villagers say. And there were other victims, whispers Diran, who is squatting by the soccer pitch, puffing on a cigarette. "I don't know how many were chased into the forest and killed." He shrugs and gestures up the road in its direction. "But it must be a lot. You can still smell them up there...
Graham is a graduate of Wake Forest University, and holds A.M. and PhD degrees from Duke University and Carnegie Mellon University respectively...
...this California? Not exactly. You will find no Road Rage bumper-car ride. No Catastrophe California with floods, earthquakes and forest fires. No halls with animatronic Mansons and O.J.s. This is "California": a dreamland built by Disney Imaginers; a G-rated makeover of the tarnished Golden State; a living movie fantasy--the reel thing...
...Kilimanjaro, which towers 19,340 feet above Tanzania's tropical rain forest, holds a special romance and mystery for countless tourists and writers - and its relatively easy grade allows thousands of visitors each year to experience the unique ascent from its equatorial base to its snow-covered zenith...