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...BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE NO SECRET of its antipathy toward the Endangered Species Act and its most celebrated case, the northern spotted owl. Environmentalists have used the owl as a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest; loggers claim that protecting it costs them 32,000 jobs. Last week the rare birds trembled, after the Cabinet-level committee known as the God Squad voted to override the act and allow timber sales on 1,700 acres...
...been granted only once before in the act's 19-year existence. While environmentalists go to court to reverse the action, conservation legislation is winding its way through Congress to protect not only the owl also but the salmon, steelhead and other species dependent on the old-growth-forest ecosystems. Lawmakers also hope to help timber communities and retrain lumberjacks, many of whom will lose their jobs anyway when the last, irreplaceable trees fall. (See related story on page...
...that different from New York, however, or from Boston, Miami or even Seattle. As the clean-up begins, we should not ask "why did it happen?" but "why didn't it happen before?" The King verdict was only one match among hundreds, lying on a very dry forest floor...
LOST IN AN ENVELOPING WHITEness, two patrols -- one American, one German -- stumble warily toward each other through the snows of the Ardennes forest. It is Christmastime 1944, just before the Battle of the Bulge...
...Germans are a more ragtag outfit. Their command post is a forest hut, and their personnel are either overage or underage -- the last scrapings of a nearly defeated nation's manpower pool. It is they who begin a suit for a separate peace. When they get the drop on some of the G.I.s, they don't fire. To test their intentions, one of the Americans builds a funny snowman-Hitler; the Germans respond by attacking their position -- with snowballs. Next thing you know both sides are singing Christmas carols together, exchanging presents and trying to work...