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Spring winds come early and stay late in the Daxing'anling mountains. But residents of the area, nestled along China's northeastern border, know the breeze that refreshes can also be a formidable enemy. Over the past 20 years, there have been 880 reported forest fires in the area, most of them small and controllable...
...faced by the Communist government. The inferno has already killed more than 200 people and seriously injured an additional 221. Despite the valiant efforts of approximately 40,000 soldiers and thousands of civilians, the walls of flame have razed whole villages, scorched nearly 1.5 million of the Daxing'anling forest's 20 million acres and left at least 51,000 people homeless...
...also has a reputation for hard-nosed competition in listing. Fifteen years ago, only about 75 people had seen 600 birds in North America. Now more than 500 have topped that figure, and 75 have seen 700. James Vardaman, a forest-management executive from Jackson, Miss., spent $45,000 and 170 days trying to see 700 birds during 1979. Vardaman, who called himself an amateur, paid guides and tipsters, jetted off after almost every rarity and ended the year listing 699 birds. Basham broke the 700 mark in 1983, and many birders dream of pushing the total higher...
This year's season is 30 games long, with the finale coming on July 18. The Gulls, who were 1-2 going into last night's game in Florida, carry 10 players, among them college notables Tyronne Bogues of Wake Forest and David Kipfer of Providence College...
...voids. The New Deal and the New Frontier might vanish, for example -- both Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy had relationships with other women. If all the adulterers who ever served in the U.S. Congress were to have their lives and legislative works obliterated from history, America might revert to forest. Perhaps the Supreme Court would remain intact, its virtue protected by advanced age. Play the game on a world scale, annulling the lives and works of leaders who have fallen into carnality, and much of history vanishes. The sex drive -- generator of life, begetter of history -- is not an orderly...