Word: mi
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Today the timber industry no longer enjoys the absolute fealty it once did. Mainers have watched with alarm over the past two decades as some 2,000 sq. mi. of forest--roughly the area of Delaware--have been clear-cut. From the air, the rich coat of the North Woods looks like it has mange. In the past five years, softwoods such as spruce and fir have been chopped down at a pace almost double their rate of growth. "There is no question that clear-cutting was overused," concedes Roger Milliken, one of the most progressive of the large landowners...
...persuaded the U.S. and other major countries to support a conservation offensive called the International Coral Reef Initiative. And perhaps most important, they have launched an ambitious project called the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, which will conduct the first surveys of the earth's estimated 400,000 sq. mi. of reef, including remote atolls no scientist has ever seen...
Nowhere in the world have they been subject to more abuse than in the Philippines, says University of the Philippines marine scientist Edgardo Gomez. According to environmentalists, a staggering 90% of the archipelago's 13,000 sq. mi. of reef is dead or deteriorating. Among other things, Philippine reefs are being buried by tons of soil that washes from deforested tracts of land. They are also being damaged by pollution that seeps from factories, farm fields and sewers. But above all they are being destroyed by too much fishing...
...something had changed. Estefan's music became more reflective. She returned to her roots, singing the Spanish-language songs her grandmother sang to her when she was a child. Her album Mi Tierra (1993) was entirely in Spanish and drew from the traditional music of Cuba; a follow-up, Abriendo Puertas (1995), also in Spanish, incorporated the music of Colombia and Venezuela. Estefan was a crossover star who was able to cross back. "A lot of people told me at the beginning, 'You're too Latin for the Americans, too American for the Latins,'" she says...
...offers these days (her husband says she turned down the title role in the movie Evita that eventually went to Madonna), and is currently preparing for a world tour that kicks off July 18. "I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago," says Estefan. "After Mi Tierra I could never go back to doing the same old thing." Clearly, Estefan's Destiny lies elsewhere...