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Buoyed by such successes, government agencies and environmental groups have begun to launch restoration projects of unprecedented scale. The Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois...
...every celebrity there are dozens of ordinary travelers who visit, fall in love and buy (or dream of buying) vacation homes. It is easy to see what entices them: breathtaking landscape, boundless fresh air and only 5 people per sq. mi. (vs. 3.3 deer and hundreds of trout). "It's a long way from the trade lanes and booming coasts, but it's a wonderful place to live and work. Trouble is, everybody wants to claim it all at once," says Tom McGuane, the laconic author (Ninety-Two in the Shade, Something to Be Desired) who beat the trend...
...morning shift had just started when an overhead hydraulic line ruptured, spilling its volatile fluid onto the floor. Gas burners under the frying vats ignited the vapors and turned the 30,000-sq.-ft. plant into an inferno of flame and thick, yellow smoke. Panicked employees rushed for emergency exits only to find several of them locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped...
GUAM. Although this 212-sq.-mi. U.S. territory is located in the North Pacific, 6,000 miles from California, and has a population of just 120,000, it became the center of controversy last year after enacting what was then the nation's most restrictive antiabortion measure. It outlaws all abortions except when pregnancy endangers a woman's life; violators face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for obtaining an abortion or aiding a woman doing so; doctors performing the procedure may be jailed for up to five years. A federal district court found...
...cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area as choked with plant and animal life as it was before Europeans landed in the New World 500 years...