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Brazil: Charges filed over Amazon
Brazil is filing criminal charges against 81 people accused of being the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rain forest. Environment Minister Carlos Minc said those convicted will be ordered to replant deforested areas and pay a collective $99 million in...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Prosecution, Natural Resources, Trials
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'High School Musical's' Vanessa Hudgens buys Studio City home for $2.75 million
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOK, PULL up the blinds in your sleeping tween-ager's room and show her this column. I promise she will not shoot daggers your way. Vanessa Hudgens Vanessa Hudgens of "High School Musical" fame has bought her first house. It's in Studio City, it cost $2.75...Tags: Personal Service, Demi Moore, Vanessa Hudgens, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Celebrity Mothers
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How the top 25 high school football teams fared
++++++++++++++++++++ || || || Rk. || SCHOOL || RESULT/NEXT || || 1 || COR. CENTENNIAL (5-0, SS-Inland) || def. Cor. Roosevelt, 38-7 Next: Friday vs. King || || 2 || L.B. POLY (5-0, SS-Pac-5) || def. St. Bonaventure, 12-7 Next: Friday vs. Millikan ||...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Natural Resources
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Refuge officials assess fire damage to swamp
757-247-4741— After burning for 121 days, the Great Dismal Swamp fire is out, officials said. The blaze is considered the longest-running fire in recent state history. And at an estimated cost of more than $11 million, it was also the most expensive fire to...Tags: Hampton Roads, Zoology, Nature, Natural Science, Williamsburg
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Nonstop to the Caribbean
Special to NewsdayMany airlines are cutting back service to the Caribbean this fall and winter, but New Yorkers bound for the islands will still enjoy plenty of options. They can fly nonstop to 26 Caribbean destinations from the New York area's three major airports,...Tags: Personal Service, Hurricane Damage, Disasters, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Caribbean Vacations
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Eastwoods Is An Active Community In A Small Town
"It really pays to be from the town you do business in," said Christine Pepka of Chestnut Oak Associates, whose business card identifies her as "Your Hometown Realtor."
This young and energetic sales representative for EastWoods is a Suffield High School...Tags: West Hartford, Homes, Bradley International Airport, House and Home, Metal and Mineral
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Off the lawless coast of Somalia, questions of who is pirating who
Tribune correspondentJOHANNESBURG — Somalia's pirates want the world to know they are regrettably misunderstood. They are merely "gentlemen who work in the ocean." Indeed, many are salty patriots risking their lives at sea while "protecting Somalia's shores." And the...Tags: Radio Industry, Economic Policy, Forestry and Timber, Epidemics and Plagues, Fishing
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Running Professor Can Teach The Kids Some Things
Thirty years ago, David Sonstroem was the fourth-best tennis player in the UConn English department and his status was slipping. "I was in danger of becoming the fifth," he said. "I decided that I would take up running to get into shape." He never...Tags: Sarah Palin, Marathon, Population, Natural Resources, University of Connecticut
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Interest increases in wood-fired electric plants amid nationwide push for renewable power
Associated Press WriterRUSSELL, Mass. (AP) _ The push for more power from renewable fuels has renewed interest in one of the oldest energy sources: wood. While airwaves have been permeated by advertisements for solar and wind power, last year wood generated more net...Tags: Duke Energy Corporation, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Wildlife, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Chicago cop freed from Iowa prison
A Chicago police officer has been released from an Iowa prison a day after state prosecutors decided not to seek a Supreme Court review of his case. Michael Mette emerged from the North Central Iowa Correctional Facility in Rockwell City at 3:37 p.m. He...Tags: Prisons, Local Authority, Law Enforcement, Forestry and Timber, Colleges and Universities
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Prevention Can Ensure Healthy Trees
Special To The CourantMost people don't give the trees on their property much thought. They may not even look at them that closely — until suddenly half the branches are bare. At that point, a tree can't be saved. So, if we want our trees to stay healthy, we can't...Tags: Simsbury, Forestry and Timber, Newspaper and Magazine, Fertilizer, Natural Resources
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One-fourth of wild mammal species may face extinction
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt least one-quarter of the world's mammal species in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to an international survey released Monday that blames the loss of wildlife habitat as well as hunting and poaching for the steep declines. The...Tags: Conservation, Endangered Species, Government, Nature, Zoology
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