Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpopular with the farmers, who miss Dan Evans, the more approachable Governor who served for twelve years before Ray. Her most dedicated enemies, though, are the more extreme environmentalists, whom she derides as radicals who "hate people." Ray's explanation: "The only way they like the earth is when it has no people on it ... because people, of necessity, change the environment [and] use its resources." But many others in the state, including farmers, fishermen and some businessmen, worry about her views on growth?that she wants to go too far too fast...
...view, irrational) boundaries. This "sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
...years, the die-offs in this veritable Auschwitz of earth's largest quadrupeds have been recorded by Peter Beard, an energetic and tough-minded American photographer who spends part of each year on his property near Nairobi. The results of his work are on view through Jan. 22 at Manhattan's International Center of Photography...
Generations of sons have followed fathers into the pits, and into the union. A miner is never "just a miner." He is a miner, a member of a proud breed, who wrenches riches from the bowels of the earth under conditions awesomely unforgiving of mistakes. The calling produces a fierce camaraderie, expressed through the union and rooted in the Anglo-Saxon heritage of the Appalachian mountaineer...
...committee's only target. It has challenged the claims by Psychiatrist-Writer Immanuel Velikovsky that the planet Venus was once a comet that swept close to the earth, causing flood, plague and other catastrophes in biblical times; his scenario violates a number of physical laws. In the committee's magazine, a twice-yearly publication called the Zetetic (Greek for skeptic), committee members have also knocked UFOlogy, biorhythms and astrology...