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From the golden sands of its Mediterranean shore to the olive groves and pine trees of its eastern hills, the most characteristic feature of Beirut's skyline is the apartment house. Row upon row of multistoried slabs stand in brightly colored ranks, graced by rooftop gardens, sunken black marble bathtubs with solid gold taps, and airy, glass-walled rooms that look out on full-sailed dhows plying the routes once used by Phoenician triremes. Only trouble is that thousands of the apartments are empty...
SILAS LEFT HAND BULL Pine Ridge...
Within a week, nearby pine trees began to turn brown and die. Most of the trees within 2,000 feet of the reactor are now dead. Hardwoods proved more resistant. Their leaves showed little effect until autumn, when they fell one to six weeks early. Next spring the buds of hickories and oaks did not develop normally. When the rolling hills of north Georgia were green with fresh new leaves, the sick forest around the reactor looked just as it had in winter...
...known to be just as radiation-sensitive as humans, so domestic animals that survived the bombs would soon die from eating contaminated forage. Human survivors would have to go without meat, milk and other accustomed protein foods. Forest lovers to the end, the Emory biologists made one positive recommendation. Pine seeds, they said, should be stockpiled in shelters so that the earth's pine forests can eventually be restored...
...Pine Slats. For the eventual conviction of the elusive John, the book largely credits a brilliant, scholarly xylotomist named Arthur Koehler, whose principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...