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...barked, flourish only in areas where sufficient moisture and cool temperatures keep fires at bay for long periods of time. There they grow quite densely together--so densely, in fact, that numerous trees are shaded out by more vigorous competitors. These dead and dying trees, intermingled with low-limbed spruce and fir, add a vertical dimension to the fuels structure that one day will carry fire into the canopy--as happened across a third of Yellowstone National Park...
...heterosexuals aren't the only beneficiaries of Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Plenty of New York City merchants are reaping the benefits too. Desiron, a downtown home-furnishings store, at right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed...
...about as insanitary as any place in the world under civilized rule.? Though conditions have improved, the city?s Victoria Harbour remains unswimmable, its public housing is still a shambles and its back alleys provide habitats for rats. Now SARS has inspired the government to look for ways to spruce up the city?s streets?and its image. Led by bow-tied Chief Secretary Donald Tsang and his ?Team Clean,? Hong Kong?s mandarins have settled on an approach that is down-right Singaporean. Last week, the government proposed raising fines for littering and spitting in public from...
...people on their feet, the University will need to spruce up the route between and Cambridge and Allston, Spiegelman says. “We’re trying to improve the experience of travel,” she adds...
...Spotted Owls while working in the field with the Olympic National Park owl crew in Washington State. Today, a chance sighting of a spotted owl in the wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled to a few thousand birds. Forced from the dwindling groves of spruce and hemlock trees, the owls have retreated slowly westward over the last few decades. Now, just miles from the Pacific, in the low river valleys beneath the Olympic mountains, the spotted owl is living out its numbered days...