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...National Forest, a lumberjack presses his snarling chain saw into the flesh of a Douglas fir that has held its place against wind and fire, rockslide and flood, for 200 years. The white pulpy fiber scatters in a plume beside him, and in 90 seconds, 4 ft. of searing steel have ripped through the thick bark, the thin film of living tissue and the growth rings spanning ages. With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth. When the cloud of detritus and needles settles, the ancient forest of the Pacific Northwest has retreated...
Once the tapes and transcripts had crossed several borders and found a safe haven behind the steel doors of a vault, they were still a highly perishable item and not suitable for lengthy storage. What they had to say would be of use if people read them now, in today's circumstances...
During a memorial service yesterday, a steel pin holding the bell's 300-pound clapper in place broke for the second time this year, rendering the regular computer-operated ringing mechanism inoperable, said Marie Cloutier-Diflo, administrative assistant for Memorial Church...
...clapper in place severed, putting the bell out of commission for two-and-a-half weeks. After that event, which Memorial Church officials say was completely unexpected, Scott Haywood of Harvard Real Estate brought the bell to the Engineering Sciences Laboratory to have a new pin cast from milled steel...
...part of the monster, as he sits not 20 feet from his daughter. When he was arrested, he looked like evil incarnate: barrel- chested and menacing, with his long hair brushed up into points. Since then he has lost 40 lbs.; he is now well-coiffed, and has donned steel-rimmed glasses...