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...depth of the bench was another positive factor. Wheaton has been able to call players up from the pine and suffer no appreciable dropoff in play on the field. Yesterday, Kristy Gaschler, Schneider and Patty Kornfield turned in quality minutes, with Schneider scoring the insurance goal unassisted...
...nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and his wife Emma have planted 20,000 slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...
...back on the generation of tomorrow? For something he considers even more important. His latest album, Evergreen Everblue, is not merely inappropriate for toddlers; it is a warning screech of apocalypse. Its cover portrays a haunted Raffi with death's-head stare, his beard spiked with acid-laden pine trees. Instead of warmly promising, as one of his favorite children's songs did, that Everything Grows, the new Raffi howls piercingly, "Why are we poisoning our children? What's the matter with...
...reinstated. Few Kuwaitis seem to care. By calling the council back, the Emir hoped to establish a nonthreatening channel for complaints. He has not been disappointed. Within days of the council's convocation, its members began receiving letters from citizens urging that it probe specific areas. The opposition may pine for the old parliament, but the populace appears content to treat the council as a legitimate avenue of expression (especially since it is as eager as the Emir to restore the old order, and so is considering a plan that would give $70,000 to every Kuwaiti family...
...numbers not seen since the early 1950s, voracious grasshoppers have descended upon Florida's Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties, near the center of the state's $1 billion-a-year citrus-growing industry. Already the insatiable insects have infested more than 10,000 acres of citrus groves, hayfields and pine forests. "The grasshoppers are so thick that the ground literally moves," says department of agriculture spokeswoman Michele McLawhorn...