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...Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told him she had breast cancer. Eight operations and a nervous breakdown later, she is worried about losing her new lover, a gas-station attendant. There...
...targeting of the California Forestry Association, which represents logging companies. And in the Times letter, the Unabomber declares that last December's murder of Thomas Mosser, a former executive with the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm, was in protest against the company's representing Exxon, whose oil tanker fouled Alaska's Prince William Sound in the great oil spill...
...WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN VIETNAM, FORGET ABOUT HELP FROM Washington. Encouraged by the recent opening of a U.S. liaison office in Hanoi, executives from Caterpillar and Boeing last January asked to talk to National Security Adviser Anthony Lake about business opportunities in Vietnam. When their request was denied, Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski tried to help by requesting his own meeting with Lake. Could the Senator bring the executives along? Lake replied that he would be happy to talk with Murkowski, but not with the businessmen...
...GLORY DAYS, THE MORRISON Knudsen company helped create the very fabric of America by building such megastructures as the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. By last week, however, the 83-year-old construction firm, based in Boise, Idaho, was struggling to survive a devastating corporate crackup. Just six weeks after directors ousted the charismatic William Agee as chairman and chief executive officer, the company was frantically seeking $125 million in new bank loans needed by the end of this week to avert a bankruptcy filing. And with losses mounting, shareholders suing...
There are also Sacksian spin-offs: Harold Pinter's 1982 play A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings. Both a Michael Nyman opera and Peter Brook's The Man Who are theatrical versions of Sacks' 1985 best seller The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; the Brook play opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week...