Grandpa Sawtooth is shuffled off to a retirement home after he bites a tourist.

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Nature is usually accentuated: the shimmering Lake Champlain, backdropped by a sawtooth silhouette of peaks, forms the western edge of Burlington.

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Meanwhile, sympathetic politicians in Congress, not least from Idaho, have used their legislative cunning to prevent a rise in the Sawtooth cabin fees.

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The Sawtooth cabin-holders are appealing against the proposed increases partly by arguing that it is unfair to compare Forest Service cabins with nearby private property because the owners of the latter face far fewer restrictions on what they can do with their property.

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They then heated the crystal for 24 hours to up to 2, 700 degrees Fahrenheit--a process that forces the crystal surface to reorganize itself into a sawtooth pattern at three-nanometer intervals (at that breadth, 30, 000 such jagged edges side by side would be as wide as one human hair).

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Some groups inimical to the rent rise are using the Sawtooth issue in a bid to stall the Forest Service's whole reassessment plan, even though its officials say that in most of the areas it supervises rents will need to go up much less than in the Sawtooths.

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