11.   In the current Atlantic Monthly, Bill McKibben makes an eloquent case that population growth and land use issues are among the biggest and most difficult environmental problems now.

12.   Mugabe obviously is stoking the coals of the long-simmering land redistribution issue to distract the voters from other sources of dissatisfaction with his government.

13.   On land issues, the ultra-Orthodox, especially Shas, are more pliable than the ultranationalists, who are also religious.

14.   On the land issue, Arab states have asked that the United Nations intervene.

15.   On public land issues, the politics have been just as complex, although not necessarily as personally bruising to Babbitt.

16.   Parkhurst was a selectman when Drega began arguing with local officials over land issues.

17.   Ryan also applied his preservationist instincts to the landscape surrounding Olana, becoming deeply involved with land management issues in the Hudson Valley.

18.   So he decided to inflame the land issue.

19.   Some interpreted it as exoneration of Clinton on Whitewater, but Starr said he would still pursue wrongdoing by Clinton on land issues.

20.   The land issue sprang into the headlines again earlier this year when Mugabe suddenly acquired a true opposition after two decades of almost unchallenged power.