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...beyond. But evergreen trees, wreaths and garlands were also used by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews to symbolize eternal life. So whatever your reason for deciding to bring a bit of the forest into your home this season, if you're in the market for a 1.8-m pine, balsam or fir, here's what you can expect to pay for it in different parts of the world...
That entourage in the stands will likely be applauding its favorite star as often as it turns to its media guides to figure out which former pine jockey or freshman has just entered the game to provide a spark to this team marked by young, unproven upstarts and ever so different from the one that took the court just a season...
...Moreover, it is unseemly, even pathetic, for the would-be leaders of a great power to pine for the pity gleaned on the day America lay bleeding and wounded. This is to carry into foreign policy a pathology of our domestic politics - the glorification of victimhood and the lust for its privileges, such as they are. It is not surprising that having set up at home a spoils system that encourages every ethnic group to claim even greater victimization than the next, the Democrats should lament the fact that we did not seize and institutionalize our collective victimhood of Sept...
...dousing of the Southern California wildfires has hardly ended the risk to U.S. forests. Years of drought and insect epidemics have also left millions of dead and dying trees across the Southeast. An infestation of the southern pine beetle that began in 1999 has killed a million acres of pine trees from Virginia to Alabama. Those dead trees--most either still standing or cut down and left to decay--are a potential tinderbox. A wetter, more humid climate makes a California-size conflagration unlikely. Still, there are dangers...
Wildfires, notes Duke University fire ecologist Norm Christensen, have been erupting in the canyons and foothills of the coastal mountains for thousands of years. The recipe to produce them is as simple as it is effective. Take a tract of pine and fir trees or shrubby chaparral. Let it stand for several decades. Then wait for the winter rains to stop so the tinder can dry. At that point, a spark is all it takes to start a conflagration...