Word: redwoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DESCENDED. JULIA ("Butterfly") HILL, 25, environmental activist, after a 738-day treetop vigil to save a 600-year-old redwood from loggers; near Stafford, Calif. Hill left her 18-story-high perch after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to spare the tree, located on company property...
...Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...
...Families have Ed to thank when they gaze at sea lions on the California coast, hike among redwood trees or bicycle through Golden Gate Park," McGrady said...
...steadfast commitment to carry on the fight. Also, it is important to note that anti-affirmative-action initiatives for higher education have won in only two states; that can hardly be called a victory. I plan to continue to work for equal opportunity through affirmative action. RENE REDWOOD Washington...
...pains her, but when Redwood talks about why this has happened, she sounds a bit like Connerly. "Sometime in the 1980s, a sense of entitlement began to replace blacks' sense of doing things for ourselves," she contends. "We started getting away from the values I was raised with--you should not bring a child into the world unless you were prepared to care for it; you had to be twice as good as whites; nothing less than an A was good enough." That erosion in values, Redwood believes, is a major cause of the "performance gap" that has undercut white...