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...year-old counselor on a hiking trail near Missoula, Mont. The animal slunk away and was later tracked and killed; the child suffered puncture wounds and numerous scratches. In April, in Villa Park, Calif., which is about six miles east of Disneyland, a cougar climbed into a pine tree in Alice Thompson's backyard, leaped onto her front porch and nudged at the door before trying to jump a fence into a neighboring yard. Animal-control officials killed the 97-lb. male and later discovered that it hadn't eaten in days. In other places, pumas invade yards to steal...
...sitting in a living-room chair with its back at an angle to a picture window. The midsummer morning light strikes my legal notepad. August has slipped in like a lover. Every once in a while I turn toward the window and see, over my left shoulder, a tall pine tree that has split into two trunks at its base. The dead lower branches have been severed, leaving large tan coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades of green...
...word, or a woman's, goes a long way in the pine-scented foothills of western Maine. In the rugged community of Farmington, pop. 7,400, where logging and farming provide seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt...
...Blossoms," the focal point was a prayer service conducted by two local ministers in praise of cherries, though there was also a parade featuring Spanish-American War veterans. And even this inaugural celebration had underwriters: the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs covered the day's expenses. While few pine for such simplicity today, some festival participants found it a particular outrage that the quintessential cherry product, pie, had been essentially hijacked by the deep-pocketed, frozen-food mass marketer Sara Lee. When a forerunner of the giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing...
...Bill Clinton must pine for the days when America had an enemy clearly identified and a cause righteous beyond doubt. Foreign policy then was so fundamental a case of us-against-them that "bipartisan consensus" actually worked. When survival was at stake, national interests, not special interests, had a fair chance to prevail...