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CLEAR CREEK is perhaps the best of the many new ecology magazines. A quarter-fold tabloid in the manner of such hip-style San Francisco predecessors as Rolling Stone and the late Earth Times, the 500 monthly is described, somewhat pretentiously, by Editor Pennfield Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well...
Needed Regulation. By contrast, many expert witnesses argued that clear-cutting is ecologically damaging. Hurlon Ray, director of the Northwest regional office of the Federal Water Quality Office, contended that such logging can cause a 7,000-fold increase in stream sedimentation and destroy fish-breeding grounds. It also reduces food sources for birds and small mammals. Beyond all that, clear-cutting is unsightly, at least to those who value national forests as something far different from the "tree farms" that loggers favor...
Peterson expressed relative satisfaction with the current three-fold University loan system, jointly funded by the National Defense Education Act, the Government Insurance Loan Program and Harvard's own loan pool...
...poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right to winter in the upper left. Elaborate genre subjects occur. A six-fold byōbu by an anonymous 17th century artist (below) shows a house of pleasure -actually, a combination of country club and male brothel-and the diversions it provided: duck shooting, wrestling, dalliance, dance, all set down in minute and ceremonious detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu...
...Buckley had repeatedly vilified the Randist movement for its orthodoxy in his National Review, but it was sufficiently large and committed to be worth courting. Besides, the "Objectivists," as they called themselves, were too independent-and a Buckley-dominated political coalition would tend to bring them into the conservative fold. In 1960, at the Buckley estate in Sharon, Connecticut, the fledgling Young Americans for Freedom adopted planks designed to bring the Objectivists and other libertarians into their organization...