After all, there were children playing on the dead tree.

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Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

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Once the beetles hit a tree, it's as good as dead within five years.

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By requiring the new version, you are able to greatly tighten up supply, cutting many existing dead tree books out of circulation.

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Or how about we levy a special tax on newspapers and magazines and direct the money into a New Media Trust Fund out of which bureaucrats can support research on new non-dead-tree methods of disseminating news?

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