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...Suddenly a great gout of smoke and flame blotted the crowd from his view, blowing in his window and smashing him out of his chair into the wall. "People were shouting. The whole site was covered with smoke," says Mahasol. Dazed, he walked outside. "I saw a dead woman. Then I saw an elderly woman who was calling for help. I dialed the Red Cross on my mobile phone...
...interrupt to get to the bottom of this "Skwerl" thing. After bottle-nursing an injured squirrel back to health in high school and taking it in as a pet, Skwerl was given some other hurt squirrels by squirrel-loving kids in Philadelphia, and then some squirrels saw his generosity, and he soon had a small squirrel army. And when you have that many squirrel responsibilities on top of school and rocking out to Guns n' Roses albums, you don't have time for spell-check...
...Everglades is not as spectacular as Yellowstone; its subtle and often inhospitable landscape of saw grass marshes and mangrove swamps, ponds and bays was once reviled as a pestilential hellhole. But today, even though agribusiness, development and lousy water management have ravaged it, the Everglades is revered as an ecological treasure--there is nothing like it on earth, and every politician claims to care about it. The Everglades, some say, is a test; if we pass, we may get to keep the planet...
Naughton's next tea leaf came last fall when a relatively moderate bishop defeated Rwandan hardliner Emmanuel Kolini to succeed Akinola as head of the African Anglican group CAPA. "Even within Africa," argues Naughton, "we saw the emergence of a large group of bishops who disagree with Episcopal Church on homosexuality but think Akinola and his American friends present a far greater threat to the Communion...
...Sugar did block the flow and suck the water out of the Everglades, converting its saw grass marshes into cattail clumps and inspiring one of the most contentious pollution lawsuits in U.S. history. But ever since the litigation was settled in the mid-1990s, Big Sugar has done an impressive job of cleaning up its act, and development has become a much greater threat to the health of the Everglades. Still, U.S. Sugar executives have often warned that they might build condos someday, and environmentalists have dreamed of locking up their land...