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...high ridgeline overlooking the Kern River in the California Sierras, Ruby Johnson Jenkins says she smells trouble. Stretching out before her is a vast panorama of blackened slopes, a grim legacy of the fire last August that burned more than 150,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest. But it isn't the charred timber that makes her wrinkle her nose. The ill odor, she says, is coming from Washington, specifically from President George W. Bush's controversial plan to increase logging in national forests in the name of reducing the risk of fires...
...There are two battles for this forest," says the sprightly Jenkins, 77, who has co-written three books on hiking the Sierras. "The first was the fire itself. Now there's the battle to save the trees." Not everything in the forest burned. Clumps of oaks still show green against the blackened slopes, and the fire stopped short of the ancient stands of sequoias. But among the Forest Service's restoration options is a plan to take out as much as 10 million board feet of timber from Sequoia National Monument. Although some ecologists say it's a necessary treatment...
...facial muscles, for smoothing wrinkles between the eyebrows. But doctors are also using the shots for such "off-label" applications as crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines. If the sight of all those glassy Botoxed faces is giving you a headache, get this: researchers at Wake Forest University found that Botox also staves off migraines in sufferers who can't get relief from other drugs. Expect more Botox approvals...
...expand the global perception of Brazilian culture beyond the clichés of football, carnival and beaches. Among the resources he wants to highlight: Brazil's colonial architectural heritage and even its tropical fish in the Amazon - a way to dramatize the need to preserve the rain forest. Films are another. City of God, set in Rio's slums, is playing to rave reviews in Europe and the U.S. but, says Gil, "we need to find more space for Brazilian films in the U.S., Europe and the great forums like the international festivals." Gil is passionate about...
...Temple” begins with a forest of planks. Wooden slats lead to a central canvas and wood box, whose low height forces the viewer to bend over to enter...