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...Prairie grass ripples along the shores of North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea, and a fat rainbow shimmers overhead. Here, if Amy Mossett has her way, an $11 million interactive museum will soon welcome visitors to the Lewis and Clark trail. Mossett, tourism director for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes, is building replica earth lodges and planning sleep-in-a-teepee packages with ethno-botany hikes, buffalo-hide painting and lectures on tribal trade networks--insect repellent included. Her message: "Come and meet the descendants of the people who provided shelter to Lewis and Clark...
...defiance of the fire ban she was duty-bound to enforce in Colorado's sun-sere parks. Barton eventually confessed that she got out of her truck, headed for a campfire circle, lighted the two-page letter and left once it had burned. Soon after, she returned to find grass burning. As the first-response forestry fire fighter, she radioed for help and began containment efforts. But the prosecutor alleges that she wanted the fire to spread--and whatever her intent, that's what it did. The flames leaped at the rate of a foot per second, engulfing more than...
...Swiss Bastl, who entered the tournament only when Spain's Felix Mantilla withdrew. "I plan on coming back next year," Sampras said. "I want to end on a high note, not like this." The real surprise of Sampras' and Agassi's defeats was that they lost on grass, a surface that has been well suited to their style of play. Few tournaments now are played on grass, so Wimbledon always throws up some shock results. By the end of the first week, 14 of the top 16 men's seeds had gone, while in the women's side...
...then the Home Secretary, had visited Chile as a left-wing student in the late 1960s. And Prime Minister Tony Blair, while stressing that the extradition question would be decided solely on legal grounds, found Pinochet "unspeakable" and Allende a "hero." Pinochet liked to say that no blade of grass moved in Chile without his order. In Piccadilly, the neon signs flash, heedless of his existence...
...Barton is charged with willfully setting timber, underbrush and grass on fire; willfully injuring property of the United States; maliciously destroying property owned by the United States; causing injury to a firefighter who broke his arm while battling the flames; and using a fire to commit a felony. She pled not guilty; a conviction could mean 65 years in prison and a $1 million fine...