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...second of three Presidential debates will held at Wake Forest University on October...
...destination was a tiny area in the midst of the Amazon basin, a few hectares of land in the middle of a preserve called the Tapaj?s National Forest, 67 km south of Santar?m in the Brazilian state of Par?. After a tooth-loosening ride along a cratered, flooded jungle road and a short but slippery hike into the 25-year-old preserve, I finally got to my goal?a surreal scene in the heart of the rain forest. As far as the eye could see, transparent plastic tents covered the forest floor, which was crisscrossed by a complicated network...
...This deliberate tree murder?call it selvacide?was the very purpose of the Christo-like covering of the rain-forest floor. The eerie area was the center of a $700,000, U.S.- and Brazil-financed experiment to slowly starve a patch of rain forest of life-sustaining moisture and see what happens as a result. The seemingly sadistic effort was a controlled version of what biologists fear happens periodically all across the Amazon, the precursor of a disaster that could be only a few years, or even months, away...
...them. For starters, his antics have made Lebed something of a hero in his hometown of Cedar Grove. "I'm proud of my son," quickly proclaimed his father Gregory Lebed, a railroad worker for Amtrak who drove up to his house last week in a forest-green Mercedes suv. Proud? Support you can understand. But mass fraud seems a strange accomplishment to crow about...
...Yanomami are the celebrities of the rain forest. No tribe on the planet is more lauded, defamed, protected, exploited and fought over. Best sellers chronicle their warlike savagery. Missionaries convert them. Gold miners massacre them. And TV movies zoom in on their loincloths and painted faces, their shaman magic and hallucinogenic habits...