Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Give a day for the Bay. In Maryland, residents by the thousands have signed up for the April 21 statewide cleanup that has Chesapeake Bay as the focus. Volunteers will plant trees and marsh grass, paint DON'T DUMP signs on storm drains, build nesting boxes for ducks, remove fish barriers, pick up debris from streams and shorelines, test water and scout pollution sources...
Trees across America. In St. Louis, 10,000 people are expected to plant 10,000 trees on the banks where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet...
Kenya countdown. The Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya will launch its campaign to plant 1.5 million trees with the help of churches and schools...
...Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate of $50 an acre. So far, Jiro and his friends have raised more than...
...favors a return to free markets. But unlike Vargas Llosa, he does not want to privatize all of Peru's 138 state-run enterprises. In the U.S.-based war on drugs, Fujimori would not eradicate Peru's vast coca-growing areas with herbicides, but would train farmers to plant replacement crops such as achiote and coffee. He also told TIME, "I'm not going to dialogue with the Sendero," the Shining Path guerrillas who roam freely in at least one-third of the country. But he added, "It's completely illusory to think that you can solve the problem with...