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...line is so dangerous because the team tends to group its best players together. That line features the Big Green’s three highest-scorers, and the team’s best defensemen—seniors Trevor Byrne and Pete Summerfelt play together and log a huge chunk of ice time. It’s a tendency junior Tim Pettit says the Crimson can exploit...
...Corte Ingles in Spain. Nearly 15% of the league's $900 million in annual TV revenue (excluding local broadcasts) is now derived from its 148 television partners in 212 countries and territories. Some 40% of visitors to NBA.com (which includes sites in Spanish, Japanese and, since mid-January, Chinese) log on from outside the U.S., and a million fans pay $10 a month to listen to streaming English or Spanish audio of almost any game...
...forests. The Clinton Administration set down strict guidelines, which have been upheld by the courts, and have to date been largely successful in protecting U.S. forests. But the Bush administration and many in Congress, believe that the remaining old-growth forests should be re-opened to logging. The issue mainly concerns the two largest American forests: the Tongass—which is the size of West Virginia—and Chugach National Forests, both in Alaska. Current bills coming out of the House of Representatives reduce public comment and legal action on timber permits, let 50 logging contracts proceed...
Proponents of these new measures give two basic arguments. First, they claim that the logging will help to prevent forest fires, because if there are no trees, there cannot be any fire. Second, they tout the benefits to the economy of the region. Both of these rationales merely attempt to excuse the unconscionable destruction of the last of the American wilderness. Not only does it not make sense to cut down trees in order to save them, but it also defies all ecological wisdom. Clearing underbrush, not cutting down trees, most easily prevents fires. And even if there...
...which is made of cardboard columns, and the “Paper Arbor” (1989), which he designed for Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work. Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake...