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Haiti: in need of trees.(News from the World of Trees)(Brief Article)
American Forests
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June 22, 2004
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The lack of trees on Haiti's hilltops and valleys contributed greatly to destruction caused by late-May floods, according to the Associated Press.
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AP estimates more than 90 percent of Haiti is deforested; David Adams, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Haiti, told the wire service that "an estimated 10 to 20 million [trees] are cut down each year."
Haitians are members of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and have long used wood supplies to fuel their homes.
But trees ...
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Dead nearly 7 decades, Idaho's Sen. William Borah cited in 2008 presidential furor
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...history. Bush did not mention that Borah was a Republican senator. Obama...say this business of dusting off Borah's words illustrates the continuing...University of Idaho, where the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation was...
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Senator Borah's crusade to save small business from the New Deal. (William E. Borah)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Although contemporaries viewed William E. Borah as a giant of the U.S...1) In 1941 New Dealer Edgar Kemler portrayed Borah as a trust-blisting dinosaur...exploitation by outside interests. Borah supported William Jennings Bryan as a Republican...
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UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO'S BORAH SYMPOSIUM EXPANDED TO INCLUDE DAYTIME LECTURES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Institute and the Women's Center. Founded in 1929 to honor and continue the work of Idaho Senator William Borah on behalf of peace, the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation is a separately endowed foundation at the University of Idaho. Supported...
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RESOURCE WARS: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO'S BORAH SYMPOSIUM TO ADDRESS GLOBAL FIGHT FOR NATURAL RESOURCES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...National Medal of Science. Founded in 1929 to honor and continue the work of Idaho Senator William Borah on behalf of peace, the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation is a separately endowed foundation at the University of Idaho. Supported...
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Late Senator figures in 2008 presidential furor
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...recalled a comment attributed to Borah in 1939 following Germany's invasion...say this business of dusting off Borah's words illustrates the continuing...University of Idaho, where the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation was...
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Senator dead since 1940 figures in 2008 presidential furor
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...recalled a comment attributed to Borah in 1939 following Germany's invasion...say this business of dusting off Borah's words illustrates the continuing...University of Idaho, where the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation was...
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Anti-War Symposium Focuses Islam, West
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...media prevailed Tuesday during the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation's...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Borah, the Lion of Idaho, served in...a Chicago attorney who admired Borah, set up the foundation with a...
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Anti-war group's symposium focuses on propaganda between Islam and the West
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...media prevailed Tuesday during the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation's...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Borah served in the Senate from 1907...a Chicago attorney who admired Borah, set up the foundation with a...
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Hope & Despair: The `Curse' of the Diamond
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...000 socialites at her home, Friendship. Idaho Sen. William Edgar Borah looked around her ballroom and declared, "This is...died wearing the Hope Diamond. "When she died, J. Edgar Hoover took charge of it and put it in the FBI safe...
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If We Could Talk to the Animals
Magazine article from: Human Events
; ...Barbra Streisand in The Prince of Tides. President Bush described such people perfectly with his reference to Sen. William Edgar Borah, the one who said World War II could have been avoided if only he could have talked to Hitler. Liberals refuse...
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