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"Pat Sajak may sell vowels for $250 apiece on the Wheel of Fortune, but I have an even better deal for you! For a gift of $10,000, you will have a beautiful tree planted with your name. It will grow in a magnificent and important site — at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum ... near the burial site for President and Mrs. Reagan."

— Game-show impresario and Reagan Foundation trustee Merv Griffin, in a fund-raising plea for a project dubbed Trees for the Gipper. The foundation intends to plant crab apples that were "personally selected by Nancy" at the Simi Valley, California, site by the end of spring.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Taking It Outdoors
Three old camping buddies try to live the dream, hanging their fortunes on an RV of tents

SPORT
Lights, Action, Cameras?
On the eve of defending his unlikely title, world champion Rob Evans insists that ice surfing's a surefire hit. Now if only the cable honchos would listen.

WILDLIFE
The Debate That Roared
A plan to reintroduce the grizzly in Idaho causes considerable growling

INNOVATION
Spray Skirts Are for Sissies
Kayaking pioneer Jeff Snyder rocks
a sport back onto its heels

PARCEL POST
Neither Rain, nor Sleet, nor Hungry Hawk ... Oops
Need to see yourself in all your whitewater glory? A plucky
fleet of pigeons will try its damnedest

SCIENCE
Is This the Audition for Stupid Pet Tricks?
In the name of research, a dubious idea is born

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