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...inevitable that tourists corrupt the places they visit? Probably. But wait: maybe we could turn it around. Make tourism a moral force, a technique for civilizing war zones, for example. In Papua New Guinea, tribes firing arrows at one another across an unpaved track through the forest have been known to break off hostilities to allow a tourist bus to pass...
Gritz: When I was up at Weaver's cabin [in Idaho], people were saying there were 30,000 U.N. Cambodians swarming down on us. You know what they were? This was right after a big fire season, and after fires go through a forest area, sometimes mushrooms pop up. So all the Chinatowns from New York to San Francisco sent every cousin and nephew and niece out there to pluck mushrooms. There was an army out there all right, but it was an army of old men, women and children picking mushrooms for Oriental grocery stores all over America...
...sales figures testify to the genius of marketing moguls, since they have persuaded people to ignore nature's essential nature. Michael Pollan, a writer and gardener of the old school, argues rightly that nature abhors a garden: left to its own devices, your yard will revert to forest or swamp or meadow in a matter of years, if not months. But at the same time, if you are willing to do the work...
...Grady was hospitalized today with "immersion foot," a condition caused by damp boots during his six days in the Bosnian forest. Doctors have ordered him to stay off his feet for 24 hours...
...Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...