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...portent, the book has photos, including a young Jewel with a belly that would make Charles Durning proud and an in-the-gloaming cover shot of Jewel riding bareback. "When you grow up on a ranch, you tend to learn things like that. I can also chop wood and gut a cow." Photos of those activities will be included in the next book...
...What I do remember is the romantic matter: Saturday-morning practices; walking, loping four blocks to the school gym; the sun glow on the court, shot through the wire-mesh-covered windows; lifting the ball from the rack; the sleepy-eyed dreams; ball echoes on wood; body rises; arc of flight; endless flight...
...glossy black-and-white prints she has pulled out of her well-worn leather portfolio are spread across the dark wood of the kitchen table. These are the photos she took last year for her Visual and Environmental Studies 40a project, which she modestly entitled Woman. Woman, she explains, focused on the image and transformation of the female body...
...There is the remote possibility that the road will still be blocked, since everyone loses when fires get out of control. Jos? baranek, for example, is one of the owners of a wood-products company called Cemex, and BR-163 runs right by his forest subsidiary?s 11,000-hectare property. He has had to take extraordinary steps, including creation of firebreaks and programs to pick up flammable forest litter, to prevent fire from destroying the timber operation he has built up over 22 years. Cemex?s wood-processing plant has the largest payroll in Santar?m, and the company...
...much an environmentalist as a conservationist?he loathes waste of any sort?baranek gets 70% of the 1,200 cu m of wood Cemex exports monthly from lands where he has aggressively pushed replanting from the outset. His partners and employees try to encourage neighbors to reduce their vulnerability to fire. But most lack the means to take effective action even if they have the will. He wonders why the government can?t settle the landless on land that is not virgin forest. ?incra dumps people in the forest and thinks they are finished with their responsibilities,? he says...