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...Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit to promote sustainable ranching on the Amazon frontier. "It's like witnessing a rape...
...Storm, and I watched him grab a small anaconda with his bare hands in Brazil--but he can sound downright panicky about the future of the forest. "You can't protect it. There's too much money to be made tearing it down," he says. "Out here on the frontier, you really see the market at work...
...retired military intelligence officers, Air Force Major General George Keegan and Army Lieut. General Daniel Graham, have been leading advocates of space weaponry. Graham headed a project, called the High Frontier, which was funded by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. It reported that technology currently exists to orbit more than 400 "killer satellites" that could knock out Soviet missiles. There were other supporters of the idea, most notably Edward Teller, the hawkish physicist known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb...
...gravity field, caused by dense concentrations of mass beneath the surface--the geological equivalent of lumps in oatmeal. Most dramatically, it will collect detailed images of all six Apollo landing sites, which have stood unseen for close to 40 years. "LRO's job is to open up the lunar frontier," says Jim Garvin, chief scientist at Goddard's Space Flight Center, where the craft is being assembled. "Right now we have a view from the 1970s, and here we are in the 21st century...
...focused his musicalcareer on celebrating and developingAmerican music, and he shared hisstory at the event, co-sponsored by theOffi ce for the Arts’ Learning from Performersseries and the Harvard AmericanMusic Association.The embodiment of the Americanoptimism for O’Connor is the settlingof the Western frontier,a journey for somethingbetter that permeateshis music. Duringthe eventO ’ C o n n o rplayed his“ F i d d l eConcerto,”which incl u d e ssegmentst h a tm i m i cgalloping and other sounds that create a sense ofwide open...