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...gardening tools and watering cans. Finally a small car pulled up, and out strode their leader, Wangari Maathai, an imposing 5-ft. 8-in. woman in a long blue dress and a red-and-black polka-dot head scarf. She picked up a pot containing a 2-ft. Meru oak seedling, but the police refused to let her carry it into the forest. In a soft but determined voice she spoke directly to Chief Inspector Paul Muluma: "Since you are illegally preventing us from planting trees in the forest and I do not want this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: WANGARI MAATHAI: Her Women's Army Defies An Iron Regime | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...title that draws you in--"Greed, Sex, Lies and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair." It's the title that promises an unprecedented expose of the secret lives of lawyers, a positively hair-raising account of what really goes on in those board rooms and oak-paneled office buildings. It's the title that feeds on this decade's ambivalent fascination with lawyers to attract an audience...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lawyerly Love: Deja Vu All Over Again | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

CONVICTED. JACK KEVORKIAN, 70, on misdemeanor charges stemming from a confrontation with police outside a hospital where he was dropping off a body; in Royal Oak, Mich. Kevorkian was slapped with a $900 fine for the conviction, his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Fish and Wildlife Service admits that removal of pines and softwoods has already exceeded growth," she said. Smith said the agency predicts that removal of hardwoods such as oak and maple in the Southeast will exceed growth within 12 to 15 years...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wilson Joins Anti-Logging Campaign | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Amenities: Swanky Oak Bar, 24-hour concierge, 24-hour private dining, multilingual staff, beauty salon, babysitting service, Executive Business Center, 24-hour valet parking, same-day laundry, health spa (with security cameras for those who might be cheating on their exercises) and lobby gift shops...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola and Raymond D. Williams, S | Title: The Hotel Story | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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