In the past month, armed gangs of settlers have tried to prevent Palestinian farmers from harvesting the olive crop, leaving at least one Palestinian dead and acres of farmland torched.

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Hoping to recoup some of the timber and toss much-needed work to sawmills, the Forest Service proposed to sell 370 million board feet of lumber from dead trees and replant 30, 000 acres.

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This failed to satisfy some relatives of the dead, who wanted the entire sixteen acres preserved as a memorial, and also people who thought that the Twin Towers should be replaced with a new business district as quickly as possible.

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