Palm Tree Florida Trip From 1963 Memoir Slides
A 1963 memory recounts a road trip by bus from New York to West Palm Beach for spring break. The narrator and friend Evan Thompson lived frugally, stayed in a garage conversion, rode bicycles to the beach, bought palm trees as souvenirs, and faced minor misadventures including a wallet theft.
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Phil
Pleasantville
N.Y
Evan Thompson
West Palm Beach
Fla
Florida
Greyhound Bus Lines
Florida State Line
Evan
Palm
Palm Beach
Bush logging plan endangers Giant Sequoia Monument
Chad Hanson denounces President Bush for a proposed plan to log over 35 000 acres of old growth in the Giant Sequoia National Monument risking massive habitat loss. He links the plan to the Healthy Forests Initiative and calls for the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act to halt logging in public lands.
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Chad Hanson
Knight Ridder
California
Sierra Nevada Range
Clinton
Bush
Sequoia Monument
Monument
Sequoia National Monument
Yellowstone
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Yosemite
Tional
Jim Leach
Iowa
John Muir
Christ
Bush Blair road map flawed says Abbas denial of Holocaust cited
The piece argues the Bush Blair peace road map relies on wrong assumptions about Israeli Palestinian actions. It cites Mahmoud Abbas's Holocaust denial and support for armed resistance, casting doubt on any prospect of true peace under the plan. It criticizes Western pressure on Israel and questions Abbas's commitment to ending terror.
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George W. Bush
Tony Blair
United Nations
Iraq
Israel
Blair
Bush
Mahmoud Abbas
Abu Maazen
Yasser Arafat
Abbas
Middle East
Afsharq Al-Amar
West Bank
U.S
Arafat
Hamas
Palestinian Authority
Colin Powell
House
U.N
Bush plan to privatize Iraq rebuild via private firms
A Wall Street Journal headline frames Bush Iraq policy as an audacious privatized reconstruction within a year, relying on Bechtel KBR Louis Berger Fluor and others amid emergency bidding rules. USAID invited four groups to bid a $900 million contract, with political donations cited and concerns raised about accountability and motives.
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Russia
Wall Street Journal
Bush
Iraq
U.S
The
Journal
United Nations
America
Agency For International Development
USAID
Bechtel
Kellogg Brown & Root
KBR
Halliburton
Parsons Corp
Louis Berger Group
Fluor Corp
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Vietnam
Hawaii
New York City
Playboy Magazine
Delaware
Dave Barry
Johnmuirproject
Sierra Club
Sierraclub.org
Palestine
Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services
el Stinko
Salon.com
White House
Ing
Salon
Dick Cheney
Pentagon
Dandy
U.S. Treasury Department
Baghdad
John Ashcroft
Justice Department
New Orleans
Afghanistan
Kabul
Hamid Karzai
Washington
Congress
Jim Kolbe
Arizona
Iran
New York Times
Paul Krugman
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Saddam
Mane
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