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...campground nearby, and a tract of huge trees, each about 12 ft. or 15 ft. in diameter and 175 ft. or more high, reserved from cutting to show visitors what the forest used to be like. Old logging roads lace through this damp, shaded museum tract. Huge stumps rot here and there among the living trees. These are significant: it is obvious that a sizable number of trees can be cut without killing the forest. Saplings and a complex tangle of undergrowth spring up to use the sunlight...
...feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey Mouse watch. While other moguls ground out 40 or 50 pictures a year, then consigned them to rot in the vaults, Disney made a few superior films that could be recycled for a new audience of children every seven years. A half-century ago, he had anticipated the principle of ancillary markets -- the spin-off of theatrical releases into sound-track LPs, sequels, pay-cable airings and TV series...
...generally available but too expensive for most tables. Even the country's largest export crop, coffee, has been endangered by mismanagement. Some 6,000 workers were dispatched last month to the northern part of the country to salvage what they can before millions of pounds of unpicked coffee beans rot on the ground...
...nothing of his fine nose for moral rot. Of all the witnesses who have written memorably of Nazi evils, this retired chemist at a Turin paint factory was the most discriminating. His books Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening and Moments of Reprieve read as if revenge (a dish best eaten cold, advises the proverb) were a matter of patient qualitative analysis. In The Periodic Table (1984), Levi even used the known basic elements as metaphors for human characteristics. His Jewish ancestors from the Piedmont, for example, resembled argon: "Inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant...
...American who supervised Catholic aid in Ethiopia at the time. "There weren't distribution foul-ups to the extent that has been reported. It's true that some ships were backed up in the harbors. True, it rained once unexpectedly, and some grain was exposed and began to rot. But no more than 3% of all the aid that went through our hands went to waste." Even if the complaints about Mengistu were true, Fitzpatrick adds, "to the extent that food given to a country saves the government of that country the foreign exchange it would have to spend...