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Poised between the Pacific and southeast Alaskan coastal glaciers lies Tongass National Forest. Don't let the Alaska address fool you: Tongass is a rain forest. Protected from snow by the tree canopy and from the frigid air by the warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser...
...years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement timber prices. With Alaska's delegation occupying key positions on congressional committees, it looked as though KPC would get its way, and Murkowski would protect the state's jobs. Said he: "If the pulp operation goes, all logging in southeast Alaska will collapse as well...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. made 34 arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking...
...brother called. He told me [Republican nominee Robert J. Dole] had mentioned my son on television. That really surprised me," Delvoland Shakespeare, whose family lives in a predominantly black section of southeast Cleveland, said in a telephone interview early this morning...
...Thomas P. Windom '00, Lillian J. Epstein '00, Noah Z. Seton '00, Maneesh R. Amancharla '00, Raqeeb M. Haque '00, Kathryn M. Hayes '00; North Yard: Brian J. Rosenthal '00, Beth A. Stewart '00, Samuel C. Cohen '00, Justin M. Krebs '00, John Paul Rollert '00, C.J. Mahoney '00; Southeast Yard: Kathleen E. Campbell '00, Chris-Tia E. Donaldson '00, E. Sonny Elizondo '00, Guckenberger, Olivia Verma '00, Robert S. Schwartz '00; Southwest Yard: Trevor S. Blake '00, Mark D. Palmenter '00, Sam Spital '00, Megan V.R. Strackbein...