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...same field, awaiting the same duty, Charlie Martin, 42, leader of the Wolf Creek Hotshots from Glide, Oregon, said of his job, "I've been to places in Montana and Alaska that no one else has. That's the romantic, exciting side. But the other, real side is that it's hard and dirty work." Fred Burger, 34, one of Martin's warriors, agreed: "It's an adrenaline rush. But it's also falling down cliffs, dodging dead trees and rocks falling on you, breathing thick smoke, not knowing where...
...clear, illuminating language recently led her to write a book on the subject -- The American Way of Health: How Medicine Is Changing and What It Means to You, published in May in both hardcover and paperback by Little, Brown. She spent six months crisscrossing the country -- from Walnut Creek, California, to Leesburg, Virginia -- interviewing patients, nurses, insurance executives, Senators -- just about anyone with a voice or a stake in the decisions that Washington soon hopes to make. She talked to AIDS patients at San Francisco General and stood at the elbow of Dr. Wayne Isom as he performed open-heart...
Still another Wolf Creek Hotshot, Richard Tingle, 34, spoke of the release into selflessness that joining a fire-fighting team can bring: "You're not an individual here. If you work as one person, you'll never make it." And a few veterans casually mentioned the pay, which can reach $200 a day. Some fire fighters, so the stories they tell one another go, earn enough during the summer months to pay college tuition or living expenses for the rest of the year...
...later, in 1992, the logging firm defied state and federal regulations more directly. Over a frenzied Thanksgiving weekend of what environmentalists called "renegade logging," Pacific broke off negotiations with state officials and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and sent loggers into a prized old-growth stand called Owl Creek. Though Pacific claimed that the state board of forestry and the office of Governor Pete Wilson had approved the Thanksgiving cut, it was stopped after five days by a state appeals court. John Campbell, Pacific's combative president, shrugs off legal entanglements that have tied up virtually all the firm...
...federal-court lawsuit on the Owl Creek logging, due for trial in July, may determine how seriously logging firms must take endangered-species regulations. Mark Harris, a young lawyer for EPIC, which brought the suit, is bitter about Pacific Lumber and Maxxam. "They're hosing this county," he says. "If they've got a new Blazer in the driveway, that's their environment." In April EPIC also sued the California Department of Forestry for "failing to lawfully respond to environmental issues" in approving old- growth cutting. Lasting protection of the old-growth redwoods, however, depends on Congressman Hamburg's Headwaters...