Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John, first at the rendezvous somewhere southeast of Los Angeles, sits patiently in the captain's chair of his motor home, parked on a promontory overlooking a panorama of backcountry hills green as spring in the afternoon sun. A full silver beard spreads over his chest, almost obscuring the picture of a Thompson submachine gun on his red T shirt. THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN FREEDOM MACHINE, reads the legend. A bird-skinning knife is holstered parallel to his belt. Big John is an original road warrior, a man whose history stretches back to the beginning of time as bikers measure...
...European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond, Anita Pratap Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...panhandle. Unlike parks, national forests are available for lumbering. But conservationists have protested that the Tongass, one of the few remaining temperate rain forests, should be largely protected from logging, especially considering that the industry is heavily subsidized by the U.S. Forest Service. Says Larry Edwards, founder of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Society: "We have a saying about the timber industry: 'They take the best. Then they take the best of the rest. And they leave us, the public and the nature lovers and the Alaskans, the scraps...
Burley has collected plants from the Philippines and Sumatra so far. He is also working on the National Geographic Society project and the Southeast Asia flora project...
Projects such as Burley's depend upon the Arboretum's plant and written libraries for much of their basic research. Without the wide-ranging collection of Southeast Asian plants the arboretum holds, Burley says his work would be very difficult...