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...Eastern Luzon is unlikely to recover so swiftly from the typhoon havoc of last week, because the disaster was only part natural-and largely the work of man. Two storms slammed in from the Philippine Sea, hitting the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila. Normally, the interior Sierra Madre mountains would block and tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind...
...they have three in all—are adorned with artwork, most of it modern, on loan from the avant-garde DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass. Meyer’s office, furnished with his own items, features an impressive reproduction of Pablo Picasso’s “Interior With a Girl Drawing.” (The original is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.) His windows look out onto the breathtaking expanse of Boston Harbor...
...island of Luzon is unlikely to recover swiftly from the havoc of last week, when two storms slammed into the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila, because the disaster was only partly natural - and largely the work of man. Normally, the roots of trees that cover the interior Sierra Madre mountains would absorb the rain. But four decades of logging - much of it illegal - has steadily denuded the island's mountains...
...mail sent out yesterday, HUPD advised that “residents should not prop interior or exterior doors at any time, hold an outside door open for strangers or allow strangers to ‘piggyback...
...also offered reduced-price oil vouchers to curry favor with specific companies and individuals--in the hope that foreign governments would have the U.N. sanctions revoked. According to a September CIA report, the biggest beneficiaries of those vouchers were businesspeople from France, Russia and China, including a former French Interior Minister and members of the Russian parliament. The most serious charge is that Benon Sevan, the U.N. administrator from Cyprus who managed the $64 billion oil-for-food program, illegally received more than 7 million bbl. of oil, although Sevan has denied doing so. Investigators accuse Banque Nationale de Paris...