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...rabbi read not long ago that a severe fertilizer shortage is one cause of famine in sub-Saharan Africa and India. He was shocked to learn that Americans annually keep their lawns and shrubs verdant with the help of 3 million tons of fertilizer, slightly more than the entire supply that was available to India to grow food during...
...Americans returning to the wild as never before, backpacking their way home to nature, the main trail up Mount Whitney has become about as lonely as Times Square on New Year's Eve. Last summer some 15,000 people made the trek, most camping overnight along the way. Verdant stands of timber were denuded by ax-happy hikers hunting for firewood, and trails became littered with trash...
...Caribbean island of Grenada has always been too good to be believed. With its beautiful beaches, verdant mountains, balmy climate and charming Old World atmosphere, it was "the one small island," Novelist Alec Waugh once wrote, "that provides everything a preconceived picture of the tropics has led a visitor to expect...
...minutes each night they spilled forward from their cold, hard seats to join Graham in Christ's verdant kingdom--located between the first and third base lines. Over the week, more than 10,000 came forward for the five minute registration session with a corps of counselors who put the newly won souls on Graham's mailing lists and sent their names to local ministers for safe-keeping...
...mammoth centennial celebration and the party was appropriately planned. There was a huge barbecue, with burgers, beer and cooks in ten-gallon hats. The backdrop could not have been grander-Yellowstone National Park's majestic peaks and verdant valleys. Yet as night fell and the ceremony continued, sleet swept over the assembled dignitaries. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton talked on (and on). Numbed with cold, Montana's Bozeman High School band packed up their instruments. Finally, wearing a brave, frozen smile, Mrs. Richard Nixon held aloft a symbolic torch, and the U.S.'s national park system officially entered...