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Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...
What is happening in the Amazon forest sends a dire alarm that needs to be heeded. I have traveled on many occasions in the past 26 years on some of the roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state...
Everyone talks about how the boys in Columbine learned to make bombs on the Internet and whiled away their unhappy hours on neo-Nazi websites. Nobody talks about the fact that the Web's most profitable sites are not Yahoo!, Amazon or Priceline, but sites that peddle what, in a more innocent time, used to be called "dirty pictures." Or the fact that sex websites generate a billion dollars in revenue every year, thanks to the 20 million (and climbing) Americans who frequent them...
JEFF BEZOS The king of e-tail was $720 million in the red last winter when we made him Man of the Year. Amazon's stock price tumbles 75% this year, and he's still laughing. WAS WORTH: $13.3 billion in December NOW WORTH: $3.34 billion...
HENRY BLODGET Obscure stock analyst rockets to fame in late 1998 with prediction that Amazon will reach $400 a share. TRUTH: Media buzz catapults the unadjusted stock price to $355 CONSEQUENCES: Amazon falls back to earth; so does Blodget...