Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holden Caulfield. Now, though, says Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Front Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent...
Stone townhouses whose pastel hues and intricate wrought-iron balconies testify to the wealth of those who built them. Side-walks peopled with men, women and children with backs straight and chins high like proud poodles--step lightly and with a certain disdain over cobblestones weathered by the centuries. Tree-lined boulevards whose flanks feature ornate fountains and sculptures carved by only the most famous of artisans...
...blinking machines could have any purpose more sublime than electronic bingo. That's why Miccosukee chairman Billy Cypress likes to usher guests onto the rooftop and point west to his tribe's home: the Everglades. An 18,000-sq.-mi. expanse of shimmering water, waving sawgrass and emerald tree hammocks, it is one of America's most vital but abused natural treasures. Like the endangered wood storks that glide overhead, the fewer than 500 Miccosukees rely upon this unique "river of grass" for their survival as a tribe. And they rely on gaming profits to buy the multimillion-dollar legal...
Cypress explains that "our values tend to balance respect for ecology with respect for people." Poling a canoe into the marsh, as baby alligators dart around the lily pads, he passes the tree islands where the Miccosukees practice sacred rites. When asked if the Everglades really could return to the way it was a century ago, he smiles mischievously. "That's easy," he says. "Just give it all back...
...defense against the barbarians is filing into the briefing room at the Maryvale Precinct, home to 229 sworn officers. Marc Atkinson's old squad is just beginning its 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Sergeant Pete Fenton tells them about a fresh homicide and about a tree that will be planted in Marc's honor out front. A chalkboard advisory warns against dining at a certain fast-food joint because a cook with a grudge, just out of jail, is bound to add special ingredients to any cop's dinner...