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What Thomas does is extraordinarily rare. It is hard enough to explain specialized scientific findings to scientists in other fields, and harder still to get it right and still hold the attention of untutored novices. Add touches of poetry, joyful optimism and an awe-inspired mysticism, and the job becomes impossible. Except that the impossible, like so many of the natural phenomena that Thomas describes, happens...
...then he spent the weekends writing his column longhand on ruled pads, finishing it by the time he was ready to drive home on Sunday night. "I wrote three or four pieces this way," says Thomas. "Then I called Ingelfinger and told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should, so I did." Very shortly afterward, Thomas' column began attracting a cult of pass-along readers. The evolution that led to The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail had begun...
...casual motorist. Lawmakers are still debating the highways' economic and environmental impact. But the Dempster is slated for a formal ribbon-cutting in September, and, with some backstage horse trading, the Haul Road may not be too far behind. Then virtually anyone with a sturdy enough car, a firm hand on the wheel and a taste for the outdoors, arctic-style, can contemplate a splendidly eye-opening joyride to the far north...
...itself. Migratory patterns also seem to have changed, and the herd may dwindle. In Canada, the size of a herd of more than 100,000 caribou may be reduced because of the Dempster Highway. Says Director Gordon Hartman of the Yukon game department: "We simply don't have enough information, and until we do, the road should not be open to unlimited travel...
...seems risky. One is former Inuvik Mayor Jim Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...