[Newspoetry] from "What's New"

[Editor-Within-Chief]

 From today's "What's New" from the APS, by Robert Park:

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3. THE BLACKOUT: ARE THE TREES TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING?  A
story in the Wall Street Journal suggested that during a period
of high electricity demand overheated power lines shorted out
when they sagged into trees, resulting in the great blackout of
2003 (WN 5 Sep 03).  And many thousands of customers are without
electric power today as a result of trees that toppled onto power
lines during hurricane Isabel.  Fed up with being turned into
fast-food wrappers and scattered along highways, trees may be
striking back, and the gravitational potential energy available
to a full-grown oak is not to be taken lightly.  Viewed in this
way, the President's "Healthy Forest Initiative" (WN 22 Aug 03)
may be thought of as part of the War On Terrorism.
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Joe Futrelle
Editor-within-chief (of yore)
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