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...sale will provide an infusion of cash for the King Foundation, which for 30 years has been a contributor to environmental groups ranging from the Sierra Club to Adopt-a-Stream. "The causes that we're interested in need help now, not 10 years from now," explains Bullitt. "Money does the most good if you do something preventive, rather than something remedial...
Nigerian and Guinean troops are mobilizing in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with soldiers from Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Togo forming a force to exceed...
However, environmentalists are anything but happy. Local conservation groups, along with such national organizations as the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, call the geothermal project unsafe and unnecessary. Moreover, they argue, the drilling rigs, power plants, transmission lines and roads in the plan will harm or destroy tracts of the precious Wao Kele O Puna rain forest. Even native Hawaiian religious groups oppose the scheme, claiming that it will rob the volcano-dwelling goddess Pele of body heat...
While still in school, MacCready managed to win three U.S. National Soaring Championships, and rode the updrafts east of the Sierra Nevada range to a then record 29,500-ft. altitude. After graduation, he went on to become the first American to win the International Soaring Championship, at St. Yan, France in 1956. While soaring, and daydreaming, he also conceived the MacCready speed ring, a simple indicator now universally used by glider pilots to determine the optimum speed they should use in flying between thermals, or updrafts...
Monrovia is fast becoming a lonely place. As the rebel National Patriotic Front advanced to within 20 miles of the capital last week, frightened residents fled to neighboring Sierra Leone. Many embassy staffers have departed, and high officials of President Samuel Doe's government have left town. Even Doe's wife and children have escaped to Britain...