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...letters to authorities. That's how, a year before former Berkeley math professor Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in the Montana woods, Jones predicted that the Unabomber would have read author Joseph Conrad, would see himself as in "a war to save the world," and would be "an intellectual, a "conservationist," a loner, and possibly a college teacher...
...White House lunches the way they used to at the beginning of the century. On Jan. 1, 1907, for example, the guest list was as follows: a Nobel prizewinner, a physical culturalist, a naval historian, a biographer, an essayist, a paleontologist, a taxidermist, an ornithologist, a field naturalist, a conservationist, a big-game hunter, an editor, a critic, a ranchman, an orator, a country squire, a civil service reformer, a socialite, a patron of the arts, a colonel of the cavalry, a former Governor of New York, the ranking expert on big-game mammals in North America and the President...
Most of all, I think, Theodore Roosevelt would use the power of the White House in 1998 to protect our environment. His earliest surviving letter, written at age 10, mourns the cutting down of a tree, and he went on to become America's first conservationist President, responsible for five new national parks, 18 national monuments and untold millions of acres of national forest. Without a doubt, he would react toward the great swaths of farmland that are now being carbuncled over with "development" as he did when told that no law allowed him to set aside a Florida nature...
Another neurotoxicology topic that occupies him involves mercury exposure in the Amazon as a result of gold mining. Such exposure can cripple the human nervous system. Last year, Counter met with actor and conservationist Harrison Ford, the 1996 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, to publicize the cause...
DIED. LAURENS VAN DER POST, 90, South African-born conservationist acclaimed for his books on Africa; in London. Best-selling author of The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), he was Prince Charles' guide to alternative life-styles and non-Christian religions...