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...wailing guitars of "Killed by an Angel" and "One," but it is Enigk's pleasantly haunting voice that sets The Rising Tide apart from other alternative releases. At times screeching and whiny and at others plaintive and hollow, Enigk's mesmerizing sound captures an impressive range of emotions. "Rain Song" stands out as a work of simple beauty that will appeal even to those not enamored with the band's power-trio sound, while "Faces in Disguise" demonstrates the band's ability to tone things down without losing the intensity and power that characterize their sound...
...Forest, 67 km south of Santar?m in the Brazilian state of Par?. After a tooth-loosening ride along a cratered, flooded jungle road and a short but slippery hike into the 25-year-old preserve, I finally got to my goal?a surreal scene in the heart of the rain forest. As far as the eye could see, transparent plastic tents covered the forest floor, which was crisscrossed by a complicated network of trenches and pits. I lowered myself to the bottom of one of the holes and discovered that despite the intermittent downpours that sweep the region, the earth...
...This deliberate tree murder?call it selvacide?was the very purpose of the Christo-like covering of the rain-forest floor. The eerie area was the center of a $700,000, U.S.- and Brazil-financed experiment to slowly starve a patch of rain forest of life-sustaining moisture and see what happens as a result. The seemingly sadistic effort was a controlled version of what biologists fear happens periodically all across the Amazon, the precursor of a disaster that could be only a few years, or even months, away...
...There is plenty of evidence to support Nepstad?s concern. Almost every year, more and more of the rain forest is going up in smoke. In 1998, in the wake of the weather shifts brought on by El Ni?o?s warming the Pacific waters off South America, some 40,000 sq km of the Brazilian Amazon was scorched. Smoke-related ailments killed 700 people, put more than 10,000 in the hospital, according to ipam, and afflicted tens of thousands of others who did not show up in official statistics. The following year, when Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso tried...
...walked across the field in the driving rain after scoring the game-winning goal in the Harvard women's soccer team 2-1 double-overtime win over No. 23 Boston College yesterday, senior midfielder Meredith Stewart had just one thought on her mind...