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Ever since last Wednesday night, when I learned of the German environmentalist's Petra Kelly's death, I have been in a complete state of mourning. She had always been the woman I admired the most, and the violent death of such an extraordinary person has affected me more deeply than any other event this year...
...Petra Kelly co-founded Germany's Green Party in 1979 as an organization for the rights of environmentalists, feminists, pacifists and socialists. She also participated actively in the anti-nuclear coalition, and in 1983 she and her companion, Gert Bastian, were elected to Parliament as representatives of the Green Party...
Middens made by hyraxes -- rodents found in Africa and the Middle East -- have provided similar evidence that human clearing of surrounding forests and shrubbery led to the sudden collapse in A.D. 900 of the ancient metropolis of Petra, in what is now Jordan...
Second Period: 3, B, Jennifer Ahren (Paige Prescott, Sarah Russell) 1:01; 4, B, Russell (Thomas, Petra Eaton) 5:13; 5, B, Thomas (unassisted) 6:57; 6, B, Russell (Eaton) 8:13; 7, H, Stickles (Buxton), 9:51; 8, H, Minkus (Josey Alissi, Ginny Simmonds) 11:52. Penalties--B, Russell (tripping...
Second Period--2, H, Whyte (Joslin, Bev Stickles) 7:40; 3, H, Simonds (Whyte, Ceci Clark) 11:32; Sue Cullinane (Lauren Messmore) 16:18. Penalties--B, Petra Eaton (tripping...