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Earth First! made headlines with its tree-spiking in the 1980s, but the guy who helped make the anti-logging tactic famous didn't invent it. Mike Roselle even titled one chapter of his new book "Why I Quit Spiking Trees." In it, the co-founder of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society described how the practice brought old-growth timber cutting to national awareness, but became a public relations disaster for the protesters. "I think the Wobblies can take credit for it if they want, but it's been around as long as logging," Roselle said, referring to the Industrial Workers...

MOST works of art stolen from Iraqi museums by looters will resurface on the world art market, a German expert has said. "That is what happened after the first Gulf War," Ulli Seegers, from the Art Loss Register (ALR), which manages the world's largest database of stolen artwork, told the DPA news agency. "The museums would not have been ransacked if there were not an international market for the works," she said. The ALR is expecting to receive a detailed list of stolen works, in order to trace them on the art market. "Whether in fairs or auctions, we watch...