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...everyone is so busy buying string bags and bundling newspapers that we couldn't find time or energy to object to the ongoing degradation of our environment sponsored by the government. The Environment President wants to lease out vast tracts of the Alaska National Wildlife Preserve to oil and timber companies...
Also receiving votes: Wisconsin (32), Bowling Green (29), B.C. (14), Michigan State (10), New Hampshire (10), HARVARD (5), Alaska-Anchorage (3), Cornell (2), Ferris State...
...which emphasizes domestic energy production to the exclusion of conservation. Environmentalists point out that raising fuel-economy standards from 27.5 m.p.g. to 34 (Honda and Toyota just announced they would start selling some cars with engines that do twice as well) would save more oil than expedited drilling in Alaska could provide. The carmakers clearly wanted to nip that idea in the bud. Efficient cars are smaller cars, and therefore fuel economy, they say, is dangerous to your health...
...more than 5,000 years, Aleut Indians plied the islands off Alaska in craft made of animal skins and bone. Over time these craft diverged in design from other kayaks. They evolved curiously split bows, sterns that were wide at the top but V-shaped at the bottom, and bone joints that made the vessels 100 times as flexible as modern boats. The Aleuts became shaped to the demands of kayaking vast distances, developing huge upper bodies from relentless paddling and bowed legs that allowed them to sit confined for hours. By the time the Russians arrived in pursuit...
...conceived, reported and written by senior writer Eugene Linden. Says deputy art director Arthur Hochstein: "We knew right away that this was a perfect assignment for William." It was also a logistical nightmare. In a little more than six weeks, Coupon and an assistant had to travel to Alaska, Mexico, Borneo, Papua New Guinea and the Central African Republic, lugging camera equipment and a studio backdrop into various rain forests and wildernesses. In each place William had to locate his subjects, win their trust and take their pictures, all on a tight time schedule. Along the way he was robbed...