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Since only 2% of Americans live without a television, Brock initially despaired of finding even 20 TV-free families. Yet small ads in three family-oriented publications eventually elicited 280 responses last March to her 22-page questionnaire. The respondents were diverse, cutting across a swath of incomes, education levels, ethnic and racial backgrounds. But they were not entirely typical American families: nearly half had moms at home, and nearly 40% of the children were younger than three...
...Brazilian Amazon, roughly 75% of the deforestation that has taken place has occurred within 50 km of a paved road. In the 26 years after the 1965 paving of the slender highway between the Amazon city of Bel?m and Bras?lia, 58% of the forests disappeared in a 100-km swath on either side of the road. The paving of 1,460 km of highway BR-364 between the city of Cuiab? in Mato Grosso and Porto Velho in Rond?nia caused the disappearance of a third of the forest bordering the highway in just 15 years...
...appease residents. In Hope Township, he calmed Wayne Forte, whose English pointer, Bonnie, had tangled with a 300-lb. bear in the woods behind his house (the dog escaped unscathed). In Warren County, Eriksen surveyed John Suk's 140-acre cornfield, where another bear had chowed down, leaving a swath of husks in her wake...
...unofficial name of this Tennessee-sized swath of jungle officially controlled by the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evokes a sinister amusement park, and that impression was certainly underscored on my first night there: In the town of San Vicente de Caguan, alongside the FARC's House of Culture - a mostly empty building in which camouflage-clad teenage guerrilla boys and girls flirted - there was an actual carnival. A Ferris wheel spun at dangerous speed above a merry-go-round, while a long, glowing worm on wheels carried people around the town, blaring its police siren...
...Cape of Last Hope and Court of Mortality Appeals, known for its clientele of sheiks and kinglets and potentates and ailing tycoons and celebrities--Billy Graham was on the premises the day I went, having his medications adjusted--but it's a clinic that also serves a big swath of southern Minnesota, so when the Exalted Nawab of Lower Rawalpindi's 14th and 15th wives go in for a chest X ray, they sit and wait next to Ole and Lena from Spring Grove. And sitting and waiting is part of the Mayo experience. You tell all your interesting troubles...