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Tinder-dry jack pines, white and black spruce, poplar and birch trees exploded in the heat as more than 3 million acres of Canadian timberland went up in smoke during the past two weeks. Some 4,400 fire fighters battled 560 lightning-ignited fires that swept across northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. "The whole north is virtually blowing up on us," sighed Albert Driedger, Manitoba's minister for emergency services. With high winds pushing dense smoke toward Indian reservations, provincial premier Gary Filmon declared a state of emergency...
Like Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, Princess Ida's unweildy structure seems virtually incapable of getting off the ground. But a series of outstanding secondary characters provides the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production with much needed levity and sparkle. The show is no Concorde, but it does manage...
Down at the end of lonely street, rush hour begins early and preparations are under way to handle the traffic. Gardeners spruce up the lavish Christmas decorations, guards sip coffee, and guides tug at their jackets as the first visitors ascend the curving drive. Ready, Teddy -- it's show time at Graceland, and Elvis Presley, who knew how to stage a stunner, would have loved every lucrative, down-home, star-spangled minute...
...city has been saying all along that Central Square must be made more attractive," says Catharine Woodbury, a city planner and a staffer on the city's Central Square Subcommittee. To that end, the city, along with the state's Department of Environmental Management, contributed $1.5 million to spruce up the sidewalks at the triangle which connects Western Avenue and River Street to Central Square...
Since last winter, Bush strategists had known they had to spruce up the Vice President's image. George Bush was seen as awkward, wimpish, maladroit. So Bush's handlers engineered a makeover. They had him utter self-deprecating cracks about his lack of charisma. They arranged for him to be photographed amid his photogenic grandchildren...