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...month but already they are a meter high; the first harvest could take place in just five years. Eyes shaded by his black cowboy hat, the Singaporean native gazes down the rows of juvenile trees, each worth thousands of dollars at maturity, with a satisfied grin. The experimental lumber crop has survived the harsh North Korean winter and is flourishing in the loamy soil. "The paulownia loves this," he says. Glancing at another leafy plant, a new hybrid, he confides, "We're going to let the Dear Leader name...
...laugh if all of these things were not actually happening right now—in Africa. In the Great Lakes region of central Africa, factions backed by six countries have been waging a bitter war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), looting Congo’s lumber and mineral resources while they’re at it. The opposition leader who chops off children’s hands and forces them to serve in his rebel army is not a figment of my imagination, but Foday Sankoh, leader of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, whose...
...verdant slope of an extinct volcano, the luxurious Mount Popa Resort reigns over the Myingyan Plain, offering a stunning view of the gilded spires and pale green walls of the fairy-tale Popa Daung Kalat Temple complex below. A curious joint venture between the forestry department and a Singaporean lumber and construction firm, the eco-refuge nestles among the sandalwood saplings of a newly established forest conservation project...
Engel, the Genoa suspect, has lived since the war in Hamburg, where he was in the lumber-importing business. After the war he lived under an alias for nine years but then assumed his real name under an amnesty. Since then he has periodically been the subject of war-crimes investigations but escaped indictment. For years, evidence of Nazi war crimes was suppressed by the Italian government for fear of damaging postwar European unity...
Some U.S. timber producers falsely claim that Canadians subsidize their timber sales. U.S. producers have persuaded the Bush Administration to impose substantial duties on Canadian lumber imports. As a result, American consumers pay more for lumber and housing. We ask ourselves, as do the consumers of steel, where is the free trade we heard so much about in the campaign? --GARY W. DONNELLY President National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Washington