Eight Salvation Army officers were deployed to various hospitals throughout the Boston area offering pastoral care as needed.

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The 31-year-old had argued with illegal loggers in the area, the Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission said.

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Jammed into pastoral Santa Clara County in a corner of the San Francisco Bay Area and populated by 2.3 million people--of whom 400, 000 professionals are eligible voters--Silicon Valley is too micro to matter much even in its own state.

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Thin streams of white smoke fall out of the clear sky onto pastoral farmland, where small fires then dot the landscape and create smoke that blankets the area.

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