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...neither side in the great forest debate was pleased. A shocked logging industry claimed that the plan would wipe out 85,000 jobs and devastate timber-dependent towns. "The program is dead on arrival," fumed mill owner John Hampton, chairman of the Northwest Forest Resource Council. And while protesting loggers in the Northwest tossed empty caskets on a flaming pyre and sent a funeral wreath to the White House, House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington State was smoldering...
...what movies are bad for kids? "By day, children use their imagination to create things," says David Kirschner, producer of both the G- rated Once Upon a Forest and the R-rated killer-doll Child's Play series. "Then by night they have very dark visions about what's under their bed and in their closet." Jurassic Park exploits that passive dark side: that moment, just after your mom shuts off the lights, when a T. rex leaps out of its wall poster and into your fevered R.E.M.s. And Last Action Hero taps the aggressive impulse: to engineer the apocalyptic...
Tour the Boston Garden, home of the Bruins and Celtics (T:North Station, green line). Walk under the trees at the Arnold Arboretum (T:Forest Hills, green line). Watch an Omnimax film at the Museum of Science. Or make a visit to The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (T:JFK/U.Mass, red line...
There is plenty of clutter in the spacious office of William Gates. Overlooking a 260-acre campus dotted with magnificent fir trees, the room contains a forest of paper. His desk is completely covered by scattered piles of documents; next to it the matching beige credenza is buried under small mountains of loose letters, memos and newspaper clips. Even the floors are littered with the stuff. But if the co-founder and chief executive of computer-software powerhouse Microsoft has his way, this pulp potpourri will soon recede. "I don't want to get rid of all paper," says Gates...
...been confirmed that the bones of an antelope discovered in a Vietnamese forest last year belong to a new species. It's the first new species in the family that includes cows, deer and antelope to be found in at least half a century. The bones were reasonably fresh, implying that the creature is not extinct -- although no Westerner has yet seen one alive...