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...most immediate change in procedures took place at federal buildings. In Denver, uniformed guards were posted at day-care centers, and downtown parking meters around the U.S. courts complex were cloaked with red covers, banning curbside parking. In Nevada, Forest Service officers went on alert, patrolling in pairs out of concern about attacks by radical anti-environmentalists. In Washington, where the Library of Congress removed the Gutenberg Bible from its glass case and locked it in a basement vault, police distributed flyers to federal office workers that suggested questions they might ask callers who phone in bomb threats. In Newark...
...fact is, the Endangered Species Act has been used as a weapon in too many bitter environmental battles. It was the only legal artillery greens had, and it saved the bald eagle, now off the endangered list. Thus far, the spotted owl has saved remnants of old-growth forest. Earlier this year the endangered marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in Northern California's old redwoods, won a lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Co., with help from activists of the Environmental Protection Information Center. A federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that...
ATTENTION, READERS. It's time for a little game of Jeopardy!. First, for $100: this French veteran of the Napoleonic wars invented hiking and the forest trail by painting blue arrows on strategically placed trees in the unmarked wilds of the Fontainebleau woods. For $200: this mountain in Middle Europe was long believed to house the tomb of Pontius Pilate. Finally, for $300: these obscure bits of ancient trivia, and hundreds more like them, can be found in this new book by a professor of history at Columbia University...
Although it's now tough to imaging the Crimson line-up without Vankoski, the freshman phenom entered his senior year of high school expecting to attend Ivy arch-rival Princeton, and was also contacted by bigger name programs such as West Virginia, Wake Forest and Alabama...
These clashing interests and interesting clashes all converge in a nefarious scheme to mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money...