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...Three-quarters of a mile away, Marianne Pfeiffer, the principal at Forest Ridge Elementary School, was waiting to help tardy students cross the street. She stared in horror as the BMW raced through the school crossing, Basu's battered body dangool; the mere mention of Maryland's death penalty by a police spokesman brought tumultuous applause...
...last day, the couple panicked as their victim -- dehydrated and possibly suffering from an existing heart condition -- neared death. "He actually died in my arms that afternoon," Seale testified, as the oil executive's widow stared intently at him. The couple buried Reso's body in a forest but continued to demand money from Exxon, pledging his safe return. Seale still faces state charges of felony murder and kidnapping, which could result in further life sentences...
...support for heroes of a different sort--the loggers, troops of the Pacific Northwest--without whom towns like Forks wouldn't exist and wives and children wouldn't be fed. And these days, it's the loggers who are threatening to wipe out a lot more than trees and forest...
...reclusive owl is fast approaching extinction in places like Forks. Without the tall trees and well-shaded environment of the oldgrowth forest, the owl loses areas needed for nesting, canopy needed for cover and rotting longs needed to support its prey--mice and other rodents--on the forest floor. To put it plainly: no old trees, no spotted...
...comments from a campground worker at a national park in Oregon were not that out of the ordinary either. Suddenly jumping to the environmental issue after a discussion about forest fires, he said, "It's those environmentalists. I heard one of them on a talk show and they finally got it out of him. They don't want to cut down trees because they don't want to build houses. They don't want anymore growth in this country. That's our whole problem...