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...much is a rain forest worth? Until recently the answer was: virtually nothing. A tropical rain forest provides habitat for untold species of animals and varieties of plants; modulates the climate and helps bring precipitation to land thousands of miles away; sequesters billions upon billions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But the only market value a forest had were the trees within it, cut down. "Forests fall for a simple reason," says Andrew Mitchell, a conservationist and the founder of the London-based Global Canopy Programme, an umbrella group of forest organizations. "They are worth more dead than alive...
...recognize and capitalize on the market value of forests. Canopy Capital's deal is a great first step in that direction. "This demonstrates that you can use a forest, but not lose it," says Edward Glover, chair of the Iwokrama reserve. Anything that keeps us from losing forests is worth trying...
...Easter I came home with a glimmer of hope: at some point, eventually, violence, whether it is the Mafia's or the IRA's, does burn itself out. People get tired of fighting, they settle for less, or put down their guns when they realize it just isn't worth...
...Good Friday and met the city's police chief. It's been 15 years since the Sicilian Mafia has been blowing up judges and prosecutors. Is the violence over? "If I dare say it, it is," the police chief said. "The Mafia figured out it just wasn't worth it, the killing and bombing, drawing the fury of Rome...
...with many other Senators, some of McCain's biggest corporate donors were invariably the companies that sought his favor - firms like FedEx, AT&T and Qwest Communications. At one point, he even allowed Fred Smith, a friend who ran FedEx, to sponsor a book party for McCain's memoir Worth the Fighting...