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...industrial countries they are a treasure trove of biodiversity and greenhouse-gas "sinks" that absorb CO2 and thus help keep global warming in check. To developing nations the forests are resources ripe for exploitation: potential farmland, a free source of fuel and a storehouse of exotic kinds of wood that command high prices overseas...
...central characters again include the three women, friends since their days at Cambridge, who have dominated the trilogy -- Liz Headleand, Alix Bowen and Esther Breuer. But this time, most of the story belongs to Liz, a twice-divorced psychotherapist who lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something to do with her friend Stephen Cox, a respected novelist who set off some two years earlier...
Like any successful coach, Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder knows this well. Though her women's lacrosse team has had the luck (knock on wood) to coast through the season relatively injury-free, it enters the NCAA national Championships this weekend in Bethlehem, Penn. with a slightly more odious, unshakable monkey on its back: academics...
...coldest the house gets is 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Doug spends 50 dollars a year to heat his home on a half-cord of wood that is burned on the coldest winter days. Two-thirds of the heating is done by the sun, ten percent from the two pot-bellied stoves. The rest comes from "heat of occupancy": the oven, the refrigerator, light-bulbs, and people. Doug looked at the 15 of us in his living room. "Right now, all of you are giving me 100 watts," he said...
...living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...