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...ANTI-SHOPPING PILL Drug companies are always alert for new and profitable uses for their products, and now Forest Laboratories reports--just in time for the holidays--that its antidepressant Celexa is effective against compulsive-shopping disorders. Shop-till-you-drop seems to be a real syndrome; sufferers consumed by the need to buy are often plunged into debt as a result. Now research financed by Forest shows that within three months of taking Celexa, nearly 80% of the 21 patients studied experienced improved symptoms...
...years to stop logging near the sequoias. Sequoias themselves are too brittle for timber yards, but if trees all around them are logged, their shallow roots often fail to hold them in the ground. "People look at their own lifetime, with a beginning and an end, but restoring a forest takes longer," says Fontaine...
...expanded 13 national monuments, giving new protection to more than 4 million acres of land, from the sequoias in California to salmon- spawning grounds in Washington to archaeological sites in Colorado and ancient ironwood trees in Arizona. And he is proposing to set aside 58 million acres of forest as sanctuaries that will be off limits to road builders...
...whatever angle the Democrats are pushing," complains James Buchal, a Portland lawyer and author of The Great Salmon Hoax. Property-rights advocates accuse the Administration of carrying out land grabs. A series of lawsuits has been filed challenging the designation of national monuments throughout the West, including the sequoia forest. And vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney has said a Bush Administration would review many of the monument declarations Clinton has made...
Whatever the political battles ahead, much of what Clinton has achieved is tremendously popular with the population as a whole. Some 10 million visitors come to the Sequoia National Forest every year, and few of them want to see a return to the clear cutting that was carried out in the area up through the 1980s. After an hour's hike uphill to the snow line of the forest, Fontaine points to a 200-ft.-tall sequoia that fell 10 years ago right on the fringe of a heavily logged area. He thinks erosion around the 1,200-year...