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John Shannon Forest Park...
Deep in Guatemala's Petén rain forest, five men dig into a curious mound in the earth. They suspect that an ancient tomb lies somewhere beneath it, and before long, their hunch is confirmed. Just below the surface, they uncover a huge limestone slab, or stela, inscribed with Mayan symbols. A little deeper they find the tomb, filled with jade and alabaster jewelry, brilliantly colored ceramic platters and other priceless antiquities created by Mayan craftsmen long before Columbus reached the shores of the New World...
Lester Brown, the president of Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based environmental research group, believes that the world's life-supporting resources, notably soil, grasslands, forest and fish, are either deteriorating or being depleted, and that these factors inevitably will lead to less growth and more inflation...
...Randolph in the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress: "This marginal first appearance of the man is somehow typical. He moved oddly in and out of his own life, keeping a shy but observant distance between himself and his surroundings." For a man doing such heavy work in a forest of intellectual history, Wills keeps a lively eye. Washington and Jefferson were both taller than 6 ft., "but Washington inhabited his height, seemed tall to those who thought Jefferson rather collapsible, all wrists and elbow." Sam Adams possessed "a curiously modern arsenal of weapons-street theater, surgical rioting, leaked documents...
...owning and running his own farm. Perrin recalls the winter morning he awoke to find the temperature outside-26°F., his house at 37° and falling, his oil tank empty. He recounts his early, inept attempts to fence off land from deer, other predators and the forest-making impulse that still thrives in the stony New England soil...