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...December 1999, many Rio hotels are offering relatively affordable rates, but prices at some are steep. A five-night stay for two ranges anywhere from $2,750 to $11,000. While the pricey oceanfront hotels on Copacabana Beach offer the best views of the festivities and dazzling fireworks, any place in the city provides respite from the wintry blasts of North America...
...that flow through it. From the Redwood Forest (Chelsea Green; $24.95) relates a brutal progression. Pacific Lumber, under Maxxam and Hurwitz, started widespread clear-cutting, a practice that leaves no tree standing and works against natural regrowth. Then Pacific Lumber began cutting through the winter months, and on dangerously steep slopes, giving the impacted ground and the silted streams no respite...
...trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams for spawning. Aggressive, steep-slope logging cuts shade and pours down sediment. This is no secret, but the state has not enforced regulations to protect salmon streams, and the new Headwaters legislation, say critics, stipulates buffer zones too narrow to be effective...
Naturally China is eager to reassure potential foreign investors at this parlous moment. But another steep drop of the yen against the dollar, making the renminbi less competitive, would force Beijing's hand. Even if China does go ahead, experts say, the effect would be less severe than the shock of the ruble's fall...
BETHLEHEM: The Austrian investors behind the Oasis Casino must be feeling pretty lucky; otherwise, the odds against a gambling palace in the Palestinian town of Jericho would seem awfully steep. The $50 million facility that opened Tuesday night sits right across the road from a dusty Palestinian refugee camp. And while Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) stands to collect a fortune in gaming taxes, ordinary Palestinians aren't invited. Entry is restricted to holders of foreign passports, which means most gamblers at the Oasis will be Israeli...