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...have. In exchange for turning a 63-acre lot into a 121,267-sq.-ft. store, they would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground. "All people were thinking was, 'This is where I'm going to get cheap underwear,' " says resident Al Norman...
...just hunting and gathering, but being hunted and gathered. T. Rex had been gone for 60 million years when our progenitors came along, but there were saber-toothed tigers, lions, cougars, leopards, bears, wolves and wild boars waiting at the edge of every human settlement and campground...
...persuasive power of the law. The legislation designed to deal with hate also becomes harder to justify when applied to threats -- but not to acts -- of violence. One of those laws became an issue in a major Ohio case that grew out of a 1989 incident at a public campground near Columbus. A black camper, Jerry White, complained to a park ranger about loud music coming from the neighboring campsite of David Wyant, a white man. After the park ranger left, Wyant shouted threats to shoot the "niggers." He was eventually charged with and convicted of aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor...
...Save jobs, shoot an environmentalist"--grafitti scrawled inside a bathroom at an Oregon campground--thus came as no surprise...
...comments from a campground worker at a national park in Oregon were not that out of the ordinary either. Suddenly jumping to the environmental issue after a discussion about forest fires, he said, "It's those environmentalists. I heard one of them on a talk show and they finally got it out of him. They don't want to cut down trees because they don't want to build houses. They don't want anymore growth in this country. That's our whole problem...