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...home of Rajkumar, 73, an ailing film icon, chattily asked Rajkumar's wife if she recognized him (she did, later recalling his unmissable mustache) and handed her an audiotape of his demands. He then took the actor, a brother-in-law and two other business associates into the forest where Veerappan has hidden out for more than two decades...
...more than 2,000 elephants for their ivory tusks, felled thousands of sandalwood trees to smuggle their aromatic and expensive bark and murdered at least 120 people. Veerappan is more than a match for local police. For the past decade, a force of 600 commandos has been combing the forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that the bandit bribes politicians and policemen to tip him off about commando operations. But he also has a network of informers, who dread and respect him. Like a modern-day Robin Hood...
...million Amount the U.S. is spending daily to battle 70 forest fires in the West, the worst fire season to date in 30 years...
...embarrassing hole in the loggers' argument: The forests were successfully in business for themselves, fires and all, for thousands of years before loggers arrived. Further, as John McCarthy, of the Idaho Conservation League, points out, "We have had intensive logging for years, and that has not prevented forest fires. More roads do not lead to healthier forest, but simply to more logging...
...Conservationists make these points: It would be impossible in any case to thin out millions of acres of rugged forest. Not enough money or manpower. Logging creates its own fire hazards - enormous piles of slash, for example. Forest fires are not nearly as devastating in the long term as they seem at the fiery moment. The big 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, hyped by media pictures and ineffectually fought with the largest fire-fighting army in history, did not go out until heavy snow and rain came in mid-September. The burned areas are regenerating nicely, as nature intended...