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Brazil’s illegal logging proves hard to combat

• TAILANDIA, Brazil - Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills and confiscate wood in a government crackdown on illegal logging less than three months ago.
  
  
  
  But now tractors are moving logs again in this Amazon town and locals are back to turning wood scraps into charcoal, an example of the difficulty of stamping out illegal cutting.

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That’s a Wrap

• DEWITT, N.Y. - Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day.
  
  
  
  So the aspiring artist and inspired activist came up with an idea - to cover the gas station with a colossal handmade blanket in a way that would bring greater attention to the world's dependency on oil.

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