Alas, when I was going to America with the band, my pals saw the name on my passport and since then they've called me Bosco. But, later, I was at a huge magic festival and discovered the patron saint to magicians and jugglers in Italy is Bosco, so it's not so bad after all. Mum worked in school meals and dad worked in the timber industry. A rope holding the spikes in place was burning, and the person had to escape before the spikes fell - not the sort of stunt that you want to go wrong. I...

Logger founded Worldwide Crusades in 1994 to train church leaders, offer free clinics ALSEA Most people think of Alsea as a small, rural town isolated from the rest of the world by the mist-covered mountains and thick stands of timber that encircle it. Several times a year, Alsea logger and pastor Bill Smith travels to another part of the globe to preach the gospel in large outdoor crusades, train national church leaders, offer free medical clinics or raise new church buildings. But first,...

Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY KATHIE DURBIN Pope Resources, the largest private landowner north of Swift Reservoir in Skamania County, wants to convert 3,680 acres of its 24,000-acre timber plantation there to a planned recreational development offering up to 800 units of housing. Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY KATHIE DURBIN Pope Resources, the largest private landowner north of Swift Reservoir in Skamania County, wants to convert 3,680 acres of its 24,000-acre timber plantation there to a planned...

His fiscal policies will guarantee future generations of Americans will not soon forget his leadership by saddling them with record debts and deficits. Bush has created will ensure we get no international cooperation in future global endeavors, saving all the time we'd otherwise waste forming those ridiculous coalitions. Bush's poorly planned, under-manned invasion of Iraq is a brilliant military strategy that guarantees our troops will be there forever, keeping terror on the run, allowing...

Experts meeting in Bonn are set to outline guidelines for limiting national greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries. During two weeks of talks, there will also be workshops on energy efficiency, greater use of renewable energy and technologies to develop clean fossil fuels. The two-week summit of about 2,000 delegates from 190 countries will focus on how to forward the Kyoto Protocol. The main focus will be on what happens when the...