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Americans have long struggled to find the balance between the public good and private enterprise across the vastness of the Western range. For much of the 19th century the railroad, mining and timber barons ruled, fomenting tumultuous economic development at huge ecological cost. Capital conquered. When trust-busting Theodore Roosevelt...
Today semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dube's spread is just another block on a gas company's exploration map as the...
Doctor Huang is a transplant specialist with a very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and...
Hoover is an interesting case because there are a number of important parallels to Gore. A man of science and technology, Hoover was known in his time as the "Great Engineer," both for his entrepreneurial successes in the extraction business and his progressive commitment to "social engineering." He assumed the...
Mark Knopfler, former lead singer of Dire Straits, is not scared to blaze a new trail. In Sailing to Philadelphia, the indignant, muted, yet invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind...