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Such meager sums won't even begin to save the forests. In Indonesia the collapse of the economy has driven many of the urban poor back to the countryside, and often the only land to cultivate is virgin forest. So a new round of fires seems unavoidable. Says John Redwood, a World Bank environmental specialist: "Once small fires get out of control in remote areas, they become unstoppable until doused by rains...
High over the winding Eel River, wooded hills stretch to the Pacific Ocean. The mist rolls in, blanketing the valley below. On the forest floor, a tiny white butterfly alights on a fiddlehead fern. And from the canopy of a giant redwood, a voice crackles over the walkie-talkie. "I'm running out of power," it says, with a note of urgency. "Can you send up another cell-phone battery...
Five miles away, at Pacific Lumber headquarters, spokeswoman Mary Bullwinkel deadpans, "I don't believe trees can talk." Butterfly's redwood tree is a valuable hostage; if it were sawed into boards for luxury-home paneling or outdoor decks, it would be worth a six-figure sum. And trees like that translate into jobs for loggers. When the Eureka Times-Standard, the local paper, printed stories about Butterfly last month, it was showered with complaints. "We write about rapists, but it doesn't mean we support them," huffed editor David Little in a column defending his news judgment. "Lighten...
...generous Eddie can also be a troublesome one. In 1992 he was sued by a Redwood City, Calif., waitress who accused him of assaulting her at his home. (The suit was settled out of court.) Then last January, after a play-off loss to Green Bay, the 49ers owner allegedly punched a Packers fan outside Lambeau Field. DeBartolo was publicly reprimanded by the NFL and agreed to pay a $2,500 charitable donation to the Vince Lombardi Cancer Fund. For years DeBartolo and his family have been plagued by allegations of Mob ties, although law enforcers have never substantiated such...
...that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime, a rekindled economy and--mirabile dictu!--an $800 million budget surplus. Out in the suburbs, our gardens are costly and ambitious, and shiny grills are taking up residence on our new redwood decks. The statisticians assure us our houses are more valuable, our marriages more solid, our teenagers more chaste (and better at math...