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...seriousness of the crisis that prompted T.F.A.P. Moist tropical forests cover just 6% of the earth's terrestrial surface but contain at least 50% of the world's variety of insects, plants and animals. Throughout the world the forests are chopped to clear land, provide firewood or supply the timber market. A report issued in 1990 by the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization shows that the rate of deforestation in the tropical world has accelerated 80% since...
More precisely, Horn is front and center, but her secret -- her jazz essence -- is still intact. It's what draws you first when you hear the smoky timber of her voice, the leisured elegance of her phrasing. And it's what holds you, wondering about the magic she brings to tunes as varied as Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying and You Won't Forget Me. Says jazz critic Martin Williams: "She's not only good and tasteful, but she also has that wonderful sense of drama that can turn any little song into a three-minute...
...decades, ever widening patches of the Amazon have been burned or cut down by developers building towns, ranchers raising cattle, companies going after timber and settlers trying to grow crops. Mendes was among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So in 1975, he organized a rural workers' union. To stop the deforestation, union members and their families formed human blockades around areas scheduled to be cleared. These Gandhiesque acts, called empates, helped save thousands of acres but also made Mendes unpopular with landowners and local officials...
...necessarily lead to the poorhouse. Some companies have been able to dig themselves out. Santa Fe Southern Pacific, which borrowed $4 billion to elude a hostile takeover bid in 1987, managed to repay the debt last March, four years ahead of schedule. The Chicago-based company sold its timber business as well as its pipeline, construction and leasing divisions. Media and entertainment giant Time Warner, which has nearly $11 billion in borrowings, hopes to grow its way out of debt without selling off assets. Says N.J. Nicholas, co-chief executive: "We can live with debt. It only becomes a problem...
Above all, the defeat was testimony to the power of well-financed opposition campaigns of the kind that clobbered environmental initiatives throughout the country. In California, agribusiness, timber and pesticide interests spent an estimated $16 million to defeat Big Green...