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...remarkable to think that the issue of clear-cutting would trigger such a fierce debate in Maine, a state Ralph Nader once called "a paper plantation." Unlike the West, almost half the state is in the hands of private timber interests. This is the largest concentration of industry ownership in the country. Just 15 corporate landlords own 9.6 million acres, primarily in the North Woods, the great dark forest blanketing Maine's upper reaches. The same industry produced $5.5 billion worth of paper and lumber products last year, as well as 26,000 jobs for this hard-pressed economy. Such...
...alive again, and eager to see Grrrl die. She has been abusing you for a while now; last time she blew you away with a fusillade from her nail gun. And as you glide along the blue gray corridors of this ghostly computer-generated world, finger itchy at the trigger, it's Grrrl you're after. The fact that in real life Grrrl is a pretty twentysomething who rudely shooed you out of her office just before the game started has nothing to do with it, you tell yourself. This is war--or its virtual equivalent...
...pattern is not conclusive. Some researchers suggest that chemical agents may cause illness through a specific sequence of events that can affect everyone differently. They fear that a combination of nerve-gas exposure, prewar vaccinations against such toxins and environmental hazards like smoky oil fires may all trigger variations of the syndrome in different victims. Scientists have begun to explore the effect of minuscule doses of such gases. In the past it was thought that only amounts of nerve agents sufficient to cause near immediate harm were dangerous. But studies are under way to determine if momentary exposure to mere...
...global warming causes such swings in temperature to occur more often? That possibility alarms marine scientists, because bleaching--the coral equivalent of running a fever--can be fatal. In 1983 a particularly severe bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden the floor falls through...
...news shouldn't have startled anyone, but no one from Sony had bothered to tell Canton. The week dragged on, and no word came. On Thursday night Canton and Levine both uncomfortably attended Hollywood's splashy Clinton fund raiser. The next day Levine finally pulled the trigger...