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...hemlock, incense cedar and sugar pine. Gone the centuries-old firs in their noble dotage. Increasingly, the forests have been transmogrified into tree farms of numbing uniformity, countless ankle-high seedlings and spindly saplings germinated from seeds selected for their productive capacity. The logging operations have tattered the seamless fabric of old growth that once covered the land. "There are more holes in the blanket than there is blanket," laments BLM biologist Frank Oliver. According to the National Audubon Society, each year enough old-growth trees are taken from the Pacific Northwest to fill a convoy of trucks...
Despite the way a flag-protection amendment threatens to trivialize politics, its opponents would be making a dangerous mistake to think that the sentiments it reflects are trivial. The Republican resurgence that began in 1968 has been based on a widely shared feeling that America's social fabric is being frayed by the denigration of mainstream values by fringe groups and their apologists. Flag burning stands out as a most egregious example of civil sacrilege, and inflammatory television shots of publicity seekers like the ones who declared last Thursday "Flag Desecration Day" -- it was actually Flag Day -- understandably heighten popular...
...Mikhail Gorbachev. For five years, the Soviet President has been putting on a political magic show. His reforms dazzled the world but produced nothing to improve the miserable daily lot of his people. He granted greater freedoms, but those liberties added fuel to the militant nationalism now threatening the fabric of the state. Yet in the midst of his failure to invigorate the economic system, Gorbachev's own grip on power grew stronger after every test. There was, everyone said, no alternative to Gorbachev...
...that exist among the people living in poverty in the city's old tombs. The work he did eventually became a photo essay and an article(for Harvard's Development Forum) in which he was able to show, in this neglected part of Cairo, the existence of a healthy fabric of human community. All were photos taken in the City of the Dead; there are people going about daily chores, a smoke-filled barbershop and an unforgettable image of a gravedigger's young son laughing and playing on the gates of a tomb...
Tiffany trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats...