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...Rarely accorded a standing of its own, nature is forever cast in anthropocentric terms, reduced to a prize in the simplistic consume-or-conserve debate. There is nature as the winsome obstacle to development, as the romanticist's favored tableau, even as the butt of ridicule by sophisticates who fault it for a lack of subtext or irony -- contrivances of the human mind. What value nature has, and it is not our place to say, may be that to its dying day it will be oblivious to our attentions...
...Twyla Tharp. In January she staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, and extends...
...Andreas Fault...
...desert last June. A lot more may be shaken, though, by a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey and other agencies. While the Landers and Big Bear quakes (respectively 7.5 and 6.6 on the Richter scale) did little damage, they evidently added stress to the system of underground faults that honeycombs that part of the state. As a result, chances of another big quake have quadrupled, with nearly 1-in-2 odds that one will hit within five years. And next time it could happen on the San Andreas Fault, which runs close to Los Angeles and other population...
...Seattle can start worrying too. Five studies published in Science describe a previously undiscovered fault there, along with evidence that the area was rocked by one or more major earthquakes within the past two millenniums. Alas, it's too soon to predict when the next biggie will hit the Pacific Northwest...