Like a Tree, Unbowed
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The Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has been clubbed in the head by riot police officers. She has been denounced as a subversive.
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The river: it enfolds us in its icy embrace. Superficially, it isn't turbid, only an insistent, coiled, supremely powerful inertia. Stop swimming for an instant, and I can feel it push me downstream at a steady 2mph.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--There's something alluring about the supertrees soon to find their way to the Coast's urban forest.
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Question We noticed yesterday that one of the branches on our new little redbud tree had somehow been broken off by strong winds that blew around here this weekend.
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An airboat speeding across the sawgrass and mud. A ringing in the ears when the engine was cut. Moaning. Screams for help. Desperate gasps at the water's surface. Helicopters in the distance. Christmas carols.
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It's up; it's down. It takes off like a rocket, but later sinks like a stone.
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NIPOMO, Calif. - Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she'd been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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"You can't cut back a genuine palm"  " It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - " a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - " faces the ax. via The Toronto Star
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By Christine Arpe Gang  A kousa dogwood is undoubtedly beautiful when it is in its full flowering glory in the spring.  But I couldn't believe how stunning it is now in its full fruit stage.
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Tim Tebow's unprecedented season keeps getting better.
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By KRISTEN DAVENPORT, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS
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Nevermind the hangover. These tipples are apt to leave you with a wider waistline.
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It&#39;s not about character. There&#39;s no moral lesson. It&#39;s not even about solving a mystery, though the question of what is happening is at first haunting.
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We've all seen the amusing spectacle of a cat that boldly runs up a tree and then, suddenly unsure of how to get back down, gets stuck up there with a slightly embarrassed look on its face.
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Shell-shocked by stocks? This one's sturdy as a rock.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)