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...among the most idealistic in Congress, struggling against the politics of self-interest toward a still blurred vision of global interdependence and the responsibility of those favored by nature and history to the rest of humanity. "I wasn't a radical when I was young," Robert Frost told us, "so I don't have to be a reactionary when...
...number of fish in streams intersecting the Haul Road. Gravel and dust can be another problem. Tossed onto the permafrost by car wheels, they cause the snow to melt early in the spring. Waterfowl then nest prematurely in these moist spots and lose their young to frost...
Cohen said he is often faced with "the classic dilemma for any representative" over his feelings about the drain of economic resources from the frost-belt to the sun-belt, and his national versus his regional interests...
...city's 50 wards, scoring most heavily in black neighborhoods whose residents blamed Bilandic for a transit authority decision to eliminate several passenger stops so as to serve outlying white areas better. Many residents were also angry at Bilandic's having outmaneuvered black Alderman Wilson Frost, the council's senior member, for the temporary appointment to succeed Daley...
Bernstein is at his best evoking the sounds and sights and terrors of a world that touches the sky. He observes that crampons (metal spikes attached to the soles of climbing boots) on frost make "the crunching sound of someone eating corn on the cob," then watches the benign sun become treacherous, turning glacier snow to sodden mush. His observations on climbing style might save a few bones: "Holding on to pitons is considered bad form but, as I see it, it beats falling." As a lagniappe, Bernstein answers the non-climber's classic question...