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...development has further stoked the fires of debate across the region as its citizens try to figure out how to make the best use of the West's natural resources. In Wyoming, wary ranchers are caught in the middle of a gas-exploration boom they can't control. In Colorado, a U.S. Forest Service plan to limit motorized access to the White River National Forest has angered off-road-vehicle enthusiasts. In Nevada, a proposed nuclear-waste dump deep inside Yucca Mountain has stirred up bipartisan opposition. In Oregon, Clinton's designation of the Cascade-Siskiyou forest as a national...
DIRTY WATER Each year animal and human feces contaminate pools, rivers, even fountains with Giardia, shigella and more. Part of Colorado's Aurora Reservoir was closed last week because of E. coli...
...weeks ago that he shouldn't count on Republicans to beat back price caps. There may be collateral damage at the other end of the Capitol as well. Sources say Senate minority leader Trent Lott has warned Bush aides that California's problems could infect 10 Western states, endangering Colorado's Wayne Allard, Idaho's Larry Craig and Oregon's Gordon Smith. And while Bush may be writing off California's votes, plenty of Democrats covet them, including putative presidential contender Joe Lieberman, whose first act as a new committee chairman last week was to launch hearings into the state...
...other passengers' boarding passes, Erik talks about how eager he is to get back home. He says summiting Everest was great, probably the greatest experience of his life. But then he thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have...
...Minister Atsuko Toyama, announcing the creation of an emergency task force to investigate the incident and provide counseling to the children. "Schools should be places where children feel safe and secure." Will they ever feel quite as sheltered again? Or, like the Columbine massacre in the U.S. state of Colorado two years ago, will the Ikeda episode inflict Japan's schoolchildren, teachers and parents with long-term emotional scars? Until last week, Japanese schools, including the one in Ikeda, were typically open and easy to enter. During school hours, gates and doors are left unlocked. There are no security guards...