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Cattle ranching is destroying tropical forests. Without question, ranching is a factor in tropical deforestation, and a major one at that. But University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen, for one, believes that this unfortunate epoch in the history of Latin America is rapidly drawing to a close. In Costa Rica, he says, "most of the pastureland that was easily cleared of forest has already been cleared." At the same time, the remaining forest has begun to rise in value. "Two decades ago," explains Janzen, "the choice was simple. Either the forest stood there, or someone tore it down to plant...
ENVIRONMENT. Clinton has been notably reluctant to fight the state's industries on environmental issues. During his first two-year term, beginning in 1978, he tried to limit clear-cutting -- the practice by lumber companies of chopping down all the trees in a stand of forest -- but that aroused the antagonism of the timber industry, and its opposition contributed to his 1980 defeat for re-election. Since resuming office in 1983, Clinton has done virtually nothing to hinder clear-cutting on the 82% of Arkansas forest land that is privately owned. In the case of the Ouachita National Forest...
From the Black Forest to Silicon Valley, from Quebec to Disneyland, fans are talking about--or at least noticing--the World League of American Football...
...road to Rio de Janeiro will soon be jammed with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered...
...sound of one Head talking? Check out David Byrne. Since leaving Talking Heads, the brainiest rock band of the '80s, to go solo, Byrne has found his muse in the unexpected: an album of Latin salsa (1989's Rei Momo) and a mystical orchestral soundscape (last year's The Forest). Now Byrne has transplanted his rock roots into fertile tropical soil. In UH-OH (Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well...