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Spend a night in Headwaters and it's easy to see why protesters have flooded into these woods to stop the loggers. Wake before dawn to hear the high-pitched keer of marbled murrelets, the rare, threatened seabirds that nest only in the top of old-growth redwoods. Vast, dark...
Inevitably, a few miles up the trail, where the tree trunks are all cunningly disguised as hungry sows with cubs, the thought comes to me--evil, unbidden, seductive--Why not just exterminate the pests? This, after all, is the human way: if you don't like it, rub it out...
Those who carped, indeed, about the $130 limited-edition mini-Coke bottles and the Elvis-imitator congestion of Atlanta's streets could have found the Games in lowercase by wandering farther afield to the outlying venues. All around the lesser sports, the air was thick with suntan oil as children...
Between low-octane drinks and high-calorie desserts, diners can ogle costumes actually inhabited by movie icons (Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump fatigues, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky boxing trunks), guitars stroked by rock stars, gear made magical by sports greats (Ken Griffey Jr.'s Louisville Slugger; Shaquille O'Neal's minivan...
Whatever doubts David had, whatever unholy fears, became impossible to ignore late last year when he went home to Chicago to help his mother Wanda move out of the small, gray house she had lived in for nearly 30 years. In sorting through their old boxes and trunks, David came...