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...state where unemployment averages 9.6% and the cost of living is 37% higher than in the rest of the U.S., less value is attached to saving virgin forests or bleak tundra. Newspapers bulge with oil company ads touting development, and cars from Juneau to Anchorage sport "Sierra Go Home" bumper stickers. Pro-industry coloring books, buttons and pamphlets appear in grocery stores and churches. "Our only mistake," admits Dave Murdey, 52, vice president of Ketchikan Pulp Company, "was not starting our propaganda war sooner. There's a place for Sierra Club-hell, we used to pour motor oil into...
...nature has much to do with the Minnesotans' sense of place and roots. More than almost any other Americans, they are outdoor people, and at least 50% of them customarily vacation within their own state. The seasons have their own sporting rhythms. On summer weekends, the traffic moves bumper-to-propeller out of the Twin Cities toward what has become a Minnesotan index of the good life?the "lake up north." The state's license plates advertise it as "Land of 10,000 Lakes," but that is an understatement. Actually, there are 15,291 lakes of ten acres or more...
...promised to be a boon for U.S. farmers, a welcome assist to the nation's balance of payments and a step toward warmer relations between East and West. For all its genuine long-term benefits, however, the largest two-nation grain deal in history has produced a bumper crop of trouble. Now, as public discontent grows over rising food prices, the Administration's feckless handling of the transaction is being widely condemned...
Despite predictions of a bumper crop, export controls will stay in place until the fall to prevent a rush by foreigners to buy U.S. farm goods at bargain prices with undervalued American dollars...
...signed up three months in advance for an economy charter flight to the U.S. They set out, with a budget of $2,000 for fares, meals and hotels, on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. During their 48-hour stay in Los Angeles, they sampled bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, paid a visit to Disneyland, took a bus tour of Beverly Hills and a trip to the sprawling baroque mansion of Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd. Though pleased by the friendliness of Americans wherever they went, the Lafonts were perplexed by the lack of bidets in their...