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...crackle in the brush. That's the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. The commando pointed his gun at the Afghan. "Maybe he thought I was a Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make sure the message was clear, Gulab lifted his tunic to show the American he wasn't hiding a weapon...
...tourist dreams of. But how can you know for sure whether your potential holiday destination is kind to Mother Nature? Check out the Environmental Sustainability Index (www.yale.edu/esi) compiled by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia universities. The 2005 ESI ranks 146 countries based on 76 measures, such as forest cover and vehicle usage, and is grouped into 21 environmental indicators, such as biodiversity and air quality. This year, Finland and Norway rank first and second, respectively: "They've put a great deal of time, energy and money into protecting open space and conserving their natural resources," says Daniel Esty...
...just about lost. "We buried 12 here last year," says Garnett Angel, whose husband of 60 years, John, was one of the latest. That's a major hit in a tiny town, where the eroding school building hasn't been used in more than 10 years and a forest of mature trees sprouts within four walls of what used to be a bank on the main strip. Paradise was never big. But it bustled. Now its storefronts are shuttered, and the only action other than the, yes, tumbleweeds that roll through town is at the grain elevator, where the occasional...
...state and took away her mother and father, Nang Nang was 4 years old?too young to understand that her parents had been dragooned as military porters, who are routinely worked to death or executed by their captors. But later, when the locals retrieved her parents' bodies from the forest, she was old enough to realize they were dead, and that Burmese soldiers had killed them. Nang Nang is 6 now. "She's still heartbroken," says her teacher, Hku Hseng Lu. "She cries a lot. Sometimes she gets angry and talks about revenge. I tell her stories to help...
...there was the time some guys broke into the forest service office, and we printed their names, and everybody got incensed," Betty Jane said...