Word: virginally
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President Bush ordered Army troops to St. Croix of the U.S. Virgin Islands after National Guards members and police reportedly joined prison escapees and others in wild looting. Armed Coast Guard crewmen also went ashore to help restore order...
Amid the suffering of natives and settlers, the one constant is that deforestation continues. Since 1980 the percentage of Rondonia covered by virgin forest has dropped from 97% to 80%. Says Jim LaFleur, an agricultural consultant with 13 years' experience working on colonization projects in Rondonia: "When I fly over the state, it's shocking. It's like watching a sheet of paper burn from the inside...
...these forests are protected from logging because they are inaccessible or set aside as national parks or wildlife areas. The issue is how to manage the rest. Even by the U.S. Forest Service's estimate, the current cutting rate of 170 acres a day could wipe out unprotected virgin woodlands within just a few decades. Conservation groups say the end may be no further away than 15 years...
...Classic Italian Cookbook, is the definitive textbook on Italian cooking in America. Craig Claiborne once proclaimed her a "national treasure," and Julia Child calls her "my mentor in all things Italian." James Beard traveled to Italy for Hazan's cooking class. She preached the virtues of extra-virgin olive oil long before the Mediterranean diet became a health fad, raved about pearly risottos before they became trendy, and opened up spaghetti-and-meatball mentalities to light, delicate radicchio sauces. Her three cookbooks have sold 1 million copies. Her cooking workshops in Venice have drawn students from 28 countries, including ordinary...
...magazine reader," says outgoing managing editor R.C. Smith. "TV Guide has belonged to a small group of magazines, like National Geographic and Reader's Digest, in that it has always managed to be respectable so that people want to have it in their homes. ((The new bosses)) have a virgin-and-whore feeling about journalism -- you're either the Times of London or the Sun. The idea that there's a balancing act in between, I think, is alien to them." So, apparently, is openness to reporters: Smith, who had already announced plans to leave...