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...logging but Mother Nature herself. According to a new study published in Science--which compared satellite images before and after August 2005--hurricanes Katrina and Rita resulted in the nation's largest forestry disasters. Nearly 320 million trees were killed or severely damaged along the Gulf Coast after enduring capsizing winds and floods from the two disasters...
...President Bush's veto of a pork-stuffed smorgasbord of Army Corps of Engineers water projects because it included a few projects for the Everglades. Next time you hear a green group complain that America's farm policies and water resources policies are degrading America's natural treasures - the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, the Colorado River, the Everglades - ask whether that group was on the side of reform, or whether it sold out their larger cause for a few projects it could brag about to donors...
Then again, it's hard to make a feel-good war movie when a country's reputation falls as its body count rises. The U.S. hasn't had a clear, exhilarating win since World War II. (The 1991 Gulf War doesn't count, since it lasted little longer than Viva Laughlin.) So The Kingdom tried to find an old-fashioned upside by dispatching Jamie Foxx and his FBI team to find the Arabic villains and kill 'em all--a fantasy solution to a real dilemma...
...want an invincible Germany!" intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind...
...everyone. The deal highlights the competition among the cash-rich gulf states for clout and glory. As Dubai was finalizing its plans to buy OMX and trade it for 20% of NASDAQ, Qatar suddenly triggered a potential new bidding war by swooping up a nearly 10% share of the Nordic exchange. There may be room for more than one financial center in the region. Yet Dubai and Qatar seem bent on a showdown, with Dubai betting on its venture with the Americans and Qatar with the Europeans. "Both of them," one banker tells Time, "think there can only...