Word: treetop
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DESCENDED. JULIA ("Butterfly") HILL, 25, environmental activist, after a 738-day treetop vigil to save a 600-year-old redwood from loggers; near Stafford, Calif. Hill left her 18-story-high perch after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to spare the tree, located on company property...
Fueled by stiff winds, the flames have jumped from treetop to treetop in a landscape made hospitable by a severe drought. Flames even shoot up through tree roots. Rotting vegetation sparks without warning, creating idiosyncratic wind patterns. Conflagrations then skip over bulldozed firebreaks and highways. "The fires make such rapid advances that it's not feasible to put men in there," says Steve Parsons of the Florida emergency-management agency. "We've got to get those long-term rains to get some moisture in the ground." Last week the Governor asked the state to pray for rain. The prayers...
Bloodied snow led to purple rage in Italy last week after an EA-6B U.S. Marine warplane threading through a mountain valley at treetop level severed a ski resort's lift cable, sending 20 people to their death. "The skies are not for the most powerful or for the most aggressive," the Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti told mourners in the Dolomite mountain village of CAVALESE. "They are for everyone." The Pentagon will pay each family $5,000 for burial costs, and the crew could face a court-martial. Residents and Italian officials said that earlier complaints about low-flying military planes...
...Keitel join New Zealand's Sam Neill. Campion has also honed her style beyond mannerism; now the desaturated colors and oblique angles bend to serve the story. And a plangent story it is, with a typical Campion heroine: the outsider woman, the renegade from convention, as viewed from a treetop, where only God dares judge...