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...pressure on. In the past 18 months, 77 new cases have appeared in nine African countries that were previously polio free. Another has just surfaced in Darfur, Sudan, bordering Chad, where refugee camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...
...that he thinks, I've experienced the truth in religion because it's changed my life, and I don't need to know a variety of other things because I know what's true for me," argues Charles Kimball, a Baptist minister and professor of religion at Wake Forest University. In other words, the approach of a Christian in Bible study searching for the small inarguable nugget of scriptural truth that will enable him to understand God's love for him, ignore all distractions and stay sober, may not be the best one for deciding what to do next...
...every cent of his discretionary budget on community projects around Mosul. Minutes into TIME's interview this week, he can scarcely wait to report that the defunct asphalt factory in Mosul which he reopened last year is now producing 200 tons a day. "There are trees falling in the forest and no one is hearing them," he says. "Of course we all do hear what blows up in Baghdad...
...Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing." ENRON TRADER, after a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, on an audio tape showing apparent collusion to manipulate energy prices in the state...
Harvard adds a New Zealand forest to its holdings after the Harvard Management Company buys a forestry estate for $650 million...