PBS celebrates female songwriters NEW YORK (AP) - These titles have something special in common: "Don't Blame Me," "Willow Weep for Me," "My Silent Love" and "Can't We Be Friends?" They are song standards from the 1920s and '30s, but there's more. At a time popular song writing was dominated by men, the tunes were created by women. Those gifted women, lyricist Dorothy Fields and composers Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse and Kay Swift, are the subject of "Yours for a Song: the Women of Tin Pan Alley," to be seen on PBS at 9 p.m. Wednesday as part of the American Masters series. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560750849-1cf> Illegal Amazon logging targeted AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Amazon rain forest will be wiped out in 80 years if multinational logging companies continue deforestation at the current rate, Greenpeace warned Tuesday in its annual report. As part of its Brazilian Amazon campaign, the environmental group said it will target multinational companies and illegal logging this year to prevent the destruction of the vast wild territory - a forest the size of Western Europe. Greenpeace says illegal commercial loggers cut down 80% of the trees that disappear from the rain forest each year. Most of the cash generated from the sale of the lumber goes to foreign companies, the group says. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560749647-3f3>
