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Even as we consume and alter, we erect stage sets to mask the loss. Many Americans today mistake as wilderness the ersatz version to which they have become accustomed. Where once there were forests, now there are tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
...state governments are willing to play the subservient wife, and pay for it, owners will take every advantage. Local politicians are obsessed with having their cities considered "major league." That means lavish tax breaks, awarding of ancillary revenue and, increasingly, funding of the team's stadium. No city would erect a skyscraper and then hand it over gratis to IBM or AT&T. But, writes Neil J. Sullivan in his book The Diamond Revolution, "elected officials across the country have fallen all over themselves to open the public purse to build stadiums that by every reasonable standard should have been...
...would be a mistake to underestimate the task facing the two men. Their biggest challenge will be to erect a nationwide organization without upsetting the enormous volunteer corps that got the Perot balloon off the ground. In addition, the gauzy notion of a bipartisan campaign, run jointly by a Democrat and a Republican, sounds better in theory than in practice. Rollins and Jordan, never before having teamed up even in their wildest dreams, may not agree instantly on the best approach, for example, to urban blacks or Southern evangelicals. And getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along...
...first burst of suburbanization in the post-World War II era was made possible by guaranteed home loans for veterans and government subsidies for highway construction. The final and shattering blow came during the 1980s, when developers flush with government - guaranteed loans from savings and loan associations helped erect clusters of industrial parks and research-and-develop ment centers along the beltways that ring many central cities...
...very concerned that the Concerned Christians' exclusion of homosexuals from their understanding of what constitutes a good Christian must surely erect barriers between them and many people...