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Manipulation by distant Mr. Bigs is an obsession here. Almost 90% of Nevada's land is owned and managed by the Federal Government--a distant imperial power to many locals. Ranching and mining are major industries, and both are feeling persecuted lately by certain cosmopolitan outsiders. In Eureka the taverns sell a T shirt bearing the words WRANGLERS: WESTERN RANCHER AGAINST NO GOOD LIBERAL ENVIRONMENTALIST S___HEADS. The pickup trucks sport a proud, defensive bumper sticker: IF IT WASN'T GROWN, IT HAD TO BE MINED. In a region where people's lives are dominated by forces beyond their power...
John Balliete leads the Eureka chapter of People for the West, a group whose aim is to open federal lands to ranching and "multiple uses." Balliete is fed up with Washington. "What it all boils down to is, Who controls my life--somebody from back East or someone like me from around here? Joe Blow from the city comes in here to 'preserve' things, and he ends up destroying the culture I grew up with...
...last September, like a Spielberg movie kid back home after an encounter with aliens, pirates or the wartime Japanese, he walked into the woods of Eureka, Calif., to begin shooting The Lost World. "A chortle came out of me when I saw him that first day," says Jeff Goldblum, who reprises his role as mathematician Ian Malcolm. "He said he was nervous because he hadn't directed in a while, but he fell right into it. He was massively prepared, brimming with confidence--a creative, improvisatory force on the set, thrilled and confused about making stuff up right there...
...looked homeless, and yet people were lined up," recalls Zanker. "I thought, 'What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store in 1993 in Manhattan...
...help coping with that reality. Facing old age, sickness and death prompted the Buddha to seek enlightenment. We can live and die expressing the best qualities of our humanity, but seeking to be forever young isn't likely to produce that result. KEN MEECE, Director St. Joseph Health System Eureka, California Via E-mail...