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...fault in the making. The San Andreas marks a dividing line where two continental plates -- rock pancakes tens of miles thick and hundreds or thousands of miles across that make up the earth's surface -- are grinding past each other. As the plate carrying Los Angeles heads north toward Alaska, it scrapes against the plate carrying most of the rest of the U.S., sticking for years and then suddenly spurting forward. Near Palm Springs, the San Andreas Fault makes a jog to the west, suggesting that it may be trying to take a shortcut along a new line of least...
...apes are bewildered, we are in awe of the wild innocence of their world. Was this how the wandering Asians felt more than 10,000 years ago when they crossed to Alaska and marched southward through the Americas, going where no man had ever gone? On today's fully occupied planet, there are few places left where indigenous peoples do not hunt and trap or where loggers and mining companies have not sent in teams of surveyors. The great forests east of the Ndoki River may be the earth's last Eden...
...street crime and the Mafia. Underlying doubts about the supposed social advantages of a Western-style way of life are shared by a wide audience. In June 1991 virulent Russian nationalist candidate ! Vladimir Zhirinovsky, campaigning for cheaper vodka and the restoration of Russia's empire to three continents (yes, Alaska too), persuaded 6 million people to vote...
...offered to American oil and logging firms at half price. U.S. manufacturers are livid because Strauss wants the FAA to waive the costly and time-consuming U.S. commercial-certification process for the Russian competition. If the FAA goes along with Strauss, the heavy lifters may start hauling timber in Alaska this summer...
...power. It requires the government to buy vehicles that run on non- gasoline fuels, including natural gas and electricity, and promotes energy- saving standards for private construction, appliances, electric motors and lights. Like the Senate version, it does not permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which President Bush had wanted to allow...