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Twin Peaks? No, that was last year's quirky small town that gained a cult following. The latest destination for fans of the outlandish and the In-jokish on TV is the village of Cicely, hard by the Arctic Circle in the state of Alaska. Among the town's 500 inhabitants is one reluctant interloper: Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a New York City native who has been forced to move there as the sole doctor in order to fulfill his medical-school scholarship...
...gossip is certain to intensify next month, when Treetops (Bantam; $19.95), a book by Cheever's daughter Susan, arrives in bookstores. The volume is ostensibly a history of her mother's extraordinary family: one member was Alexander Graham Bell's assistant; another went to the Arctic with Admiral Robert Peary. But Susan finds it impossible to keep her father offstage. A friend is asked, "So, do you think he was a monster?" Mary, Cheever's wife, wonders, "Maybe he was wicked...
Next week the President is expected to unveil a national energy policy that will favor increased use of natural gas and nuclear power and stepped-up oil exploration -- including a controversial proposal to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the plan is almost certain to ignore any significant steps to promote conservation. Most notably, although automobiles, buses and trucks account for two-thirds of U.S. oil use, the program is expected to shun the two most effective means to put the brakes on fuel consumption: a hike in the gas tax and a higher federal fuel-efficiency standard...
...plan the President will make public preserves mostly those Energy Department suggestions that suit the Administration's step-on-the-gas philosophy. The most controversial by far will be a call for Congress to permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an ecologically sensitive area that has been closed to drilling since it was established in 1960. Environmental groups, fearing irreversible damage to the ecosystem, are promising to fight that proposal with an all-out campaign that could turn into this year's version of the bitter Robert Bork confirmation battle. "We'll fight to the end," says...
Popular writers as well as scientists have helped to shape new thinking about the natural order. Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez's homage to the far North, is an exemplar of the search to resolve the tensions between human aspirations and natural harmony. In the cold half-light of the Arctic, the author finds an altar to bow before, a place where life, though a mere brushstroke on the frozen plains, still manages to give meaning and beauty to an otherwise bleak world...