Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walking about the village, which looks like Africa in South America. What strikes one is how at ease the people are with themselves and their environment. They have a way of standing that seems to put no stress anywhere on their bodies, as if they have arranged all their parts to hang in perfect balance, like a mobile. Doing laundry or picking things up off the ground, the women bend not at the knees but at the waist, and with a fluidity that suggests there is no better way to bend. They do a musical performance, a seketi, in which...
...watch Mittermeier watching everything. He is wholly comfortable here, and one sees why. There is nothing to be uncomfortable about in the villages, or in the surrounding forest, except some physical inconveniences. One calls this the wilderness, but it hardly seems wild to its residents. Pilgrims to America used to fear places like this; now people fear what has replaced them. I ask Mittermeier how all this affects him personally, apart from his sense of mission...
...special kind of courage to stand up against your friends and neighbors--especially if you're a member of Alaska's proud Eyak Indian tribe. But that's what Glen ("Dune") Lankard, 39, had to do to help preserve the last remaining coastal temperate rain forest in North America...
Sources: American Journal of Public Health (1 & 2); Radiological Society of North America...
...glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts had the salutary effect of encouraging blacks both to do their best and keep to the moral high ground...