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Somehow it seemed wrong to Ralph Flowers to kill all those black bears. Sure, part of his job at the Washington Forest Protection Association was to stop the animals from stripping bark from trees and feeding on the sapwood. Then it occurred to him that the way to a bear's heart was not through the barrel of a gun but through its stomach. So he concocted a recipe of sugar- beet pulp and set out feed troughs in the forests. Immediately the bears began to spare the trees and fill their bellies with Flowers' feast...
...principal address to the Polish Sejm (parliament), Gorbachev profoundly disappointed even many conservative listeners by failing to deal forthrightly with the bitterest chapter in Soviet-Polish relations: the World War II massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. The Soviets have long maintained that those murders were carried out by invading Nazi forces, but most Polish and many other historians believe they were ordered by Moscow. A joint Soviet-Polish historical commission was formed last year and given access to previously closed Soviet archives dealing with the matter. Many Poles had hoped that Gorbachev...
...attract engineers, Compaq, a fast-expanding computer manufacturer, has chosen the old-fashioned hard sell. For a three-day recruiting drive in Dallas, Compaq sent invitations to 3,000 engineers and blanketed the region with radio and print advertisements. To promote the company's picturesque headquarters, set in a forest in Houston, Compaq imported pine and sweet gum trees, along with park benches and lampposts. The price tag for the extravaganza...
...unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 300 miles up. In a paper entitled "Is There Life on Earth?" he reported that only one photograph, of a snow-covered superhighway cutting a straight line through a forest, showed any evidence of man's presence on this planet...
...story she tells is all too familiar and jarring to him, secure in his family position, in his Church, as a man. Raped by the local nobleman on what was to have been her wedding night, Elda became pregnant and was sent by her mother to live in the forest with an old woman who gathered herbs and acted as the local healer...