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...simple, we're dull," he contends. Such modesty can be misleading. When Harper arrived in 1974, ConAgra was a nearly bankrupt company involved mainly in grain milling and commodities trading. He embarked on an expansion plan to place ConAgra at every step along "the food chain," as Harper likes to call it, from seed planting to retail sales...
...clear-cutting a three-acre patch of old growth. The area is designated as a possible spotted-owl habitat, but Page has never seen one of the birds. He stands among rhododendron, sword ferns and buckbrush, his body testimony to the perils of his work. The pitch of his chain saw screaming at 13,000 r.p.m. has left him hard of hearing, an upended log cost him part of his left foot, and a misstep impaled him on a stick that punctured his bowels. "All in all, I'd say I've been mighty lucky," says Page, and, comparing himself...
...play, The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare's wry new off-Broadway work concerns the almost mystical longing of the unfamous for contact with celebrities. The odd title derives from a theory that any two people, no matter how distant in geography or circumstance, are linked by a chain of acquaintances: A knows B, who knows C, and so on. Thus the most renowned figure will turn out to be a friend of a friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from an apparent mugging...
...Oregon's Umpqua National Forest, a lumberjack presses his snarling chain saw into the flesh of a Douglas fir that has held its place against wind and fire, rockslide and flood, for 200 years. The white pulpy fiber scatters in a plume beside him, and in 90 seconds, 4 ft. of searing steel have ripped through the thick bark, the thin film of living tissue and the growth rings spanning ages. With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth. When the cloud of detritus and needles settles, the ancient forest of the Pacific...
Reared in the small logging town of Creswell in western Oregon, Kerr never worked with schoolmates in the mills during summers. Instead, soon after dropping out of college, he joined ONRC in the effort to silence chain saws. In 1981 the young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative...