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Chrissy in the play swears she is "gonna be a hammer and everyone else a nail in a world of wood." In the Boom Boom Room might make the audience wonder why the world, and occasionally drama, has to be so wooden...
...nature, not an enemy. "An old-growth forest is unique," he says. "There's just something about a big tree that makes you feel kind of small." Like many of the other loggers, his relationship with the forest extends beyond the edge of his saw. "After working in the woods for 44 years, I guess wilderness means a place you can go where you know man hasn't trifled with it, where you can think it's the way Ma Nature wanted it to be." But Page looks beyond the clearing he has cut and sees the nation's inexhaustible...
...empowered to sell timber rights to the highest bidder, and sell they have -- a staggering 5 billion board feet a year, sweeping away 70,000 acres of old- growth forest annually. What is grown in its stead is not forest but "fiber," as the timber industry refers to wood...
...sense, everyone is to blame for the current dilemma. Says Jolene Unsoeld, a Congresswoman from Washington State: "It is the accumulated actions of all of us -- those of us who admire a beautiful wood-paneled wall, environmentalists who want their grandchildren to know the ancient forests, and those of us who come from generations of hardworking, hard-living loggers. We are all at fault, because all of us wanted the days of abundance to go on forever, but we didn't plan, and we didn't manage for that...
...Lodge that took place that summer night. Aug. 8 was the 18th anniversary of internment -- the day the British carried out a mass roundup of suspects -- and it was marked with blazing bonfires in every Catholic neighborhood. For weeks, the kids had been preparing for it, collecting wood, tires, old furniture, anything not nailed down. That afternoon the children had also been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids still had nearly 1,000 hidden away. "Enough...