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Anyone who has been to southern Utah knows the unique beauty of the land. Millions of years of wind and running water have carved deep canyons in the soft sandstone--from thin "slot" canyons 10 feet wide but more than 1,000 feet high, to the magnificent Grand Canyon. Anasazi Indian ruins hide in the sandstone depths. Many species of endangered wildlife live in this wilderness. When the sun sets, the mesas glow fuchsia, gold, violet...
...miles from the Utah wilderness. But this doesn't mean we are powerless. Last Monday, at a talk co-sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, a packed room of over 60 students and community members attended a slide-show on the endangered redrock canyon country of Southern Utah given by Mr. Harvey Halpern of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Letter writing campaigns have generated more than 450 letters and will continue until we defeat this bill. Students can make their voices heard by writing or calling their congressional representatives at (202) 224-3121, voicing opposition...
...stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used to be 313 beds for people with a host of mental-health problems, now there are only 70. The management has added to its offerings Miraval, a holistic health spa along the lines of the nearby tony Canyon Ranch. Some of those who still visit Sierra Tucson to cope with addictions do much of their therapy in short, intensive workshops. And more than three-quarters of them now pay the $650-a-night tab out of their own pockets...
...been the subject of speculation about life there for many years. We know, for instance, that there is enough moisture there to have ice deposits on its north and south poles and temperatures, though very cold, somewhat similar to those on earth. And you can see canyons on its surface, 50 times deeper than our own Grand Canyon, where water obviously flowed. The question is, What happened? What sort of catastrophic event finished life on that planet?" The remote-controlled Soujourner rover, no bigger than a microwave oven, will roll out of the Pathfinder lander on six wheels and roam...
Christy petitioned her medical group, Rancho Canyon, for a different oncologist. By now the deMeurerses had decided to get the treatment any way they could. They made plans to begin raising money through appeals to friends and the public. "As grateful as we were," Alan says, "it was absolutely humiliating to have...