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Citizens and environmental groups called the proposed 70-acre interchange an eyesore and potential environmental disaster. And in March, the Cambridge City Council and the Charles River Watershed Association, a citizens' environmental advocacy group, filed suit against the state Department of Environmental Affairs for its approval of plans for the...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Alternative Schemes Find Favor Over Z | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

When the news came two years ago that the Lazy 8, a 77,000-acre property that stretches 40 miles south of Dillon to within roping distance of the Idaho border, had been bought for $12.3 million by a Japanese meat company called Zenchiku, there was much the same outcry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dillon, Montana The Rising Sun Meets the Big Sky | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

But a surprising number cried good riddance to the 40-acre Regent's Park facility, which was established by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1828 for the "introduction of curious subjects to the animal kingdom." Janet Fookes, head of Parliament's animal-rights committee, said closing the zoo would be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Is This Zoo Worth Saving? | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Opposing the huge project is an unlikely alliance of ranchers and farmers, rural politicians, environmentalists, Native Americans and federal agencies. More than 3,600 protests have been filed with the state engineer, who begins hearings in a few months. No one knows exactly what the long-term impact of pumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Till The Well Runs Dry | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

In Nevada the absence of such a process has sparked deep resentment among farmers and ranchers. "It's a whole way of life, a piece of history," explains Joe Higbee, who runs a 100-acre ranch in Alamo along with his son Vaughn.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Till The Well Runs Dry | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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