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And it's not just owls that will suffer from the clearcuts. Removing trees that have been there for centuries causes tremendous erosion. Disappearance of vast root systems allows soil to run down into valleys and rivers, killing fish and destroying the water's web of life. And certainly man...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

There is not even that semblance of normality in the village of Celinac, some miles farther south. The hamlet is officially off-limits to all outsiders. A decree issued by the Celinac municipality gives the Muslim population a "special status" similar to that of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. All...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleansed Wound | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

Straddling the intersection between the Great Miami, the Mad and the Stillwater rivers, Dayton is the kind of town where locals still thank travelers for visiting and really mean it. "We're so white bread," chuckles Sidlo, referring to the regional temperament rather than skin color. Though modest, residents are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bellwether in A Storm | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

The allied action was prompted by evidence that 70 Iraqi combat aircraft were being used to attack Shi'ite villages and rebel camps in the swamps and islands in the Basra region, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the gulf. That violates a U.N. resolution, passed after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Fly, You Die | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Just when summer should have been coming in, it snowed last week in Colorado, punctuating several days of unseasonable 32 degrees C (90 degrees F) weather with enough snowfall to close three mountain highways. Paris was hit with a torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with the Weather? | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

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