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...glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea- cup opens A lane to the land of the dead...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier, Gould Coast...
...soon end at other major parks, giving their managers great leverage in scaling back commercialism. Yosemite Concession Services, the winning bidder for the contract there, has agreed to sweep away much of the clutter of souvenir stores. Slated for demolition is a gimmicky gift shop near the edge of Glacier Point that obstructs the view of Yosemite's waterfalls 3,200 ft. below. Even the merchandise at remaining stores is gradually changing, from kitsch warbonnets and rubber tom-toms to local Native American handicrafts and products reflecting environmental themes...
...drastic. On Memorial Day weekend last year, holiday gridlock at Yosemite forced rangers to close gates, turning away more than 750 vehicles. As a last resort, other parks, including Mammoth Cave, sell reserved tickets through a commercial agency, Mistix. David Mihalic, the former superintendent of Mammoth who now heads Glacier park, thinks rationing makes perfect sense to people: "When you go to Cinema 6 and Terminator 2 is sold out, maybe you go see another movie." Sacrificing some human concerns for nature's well-being may not please everyone, but the loss of paradise would prove even less popular...
Wallis discovered exactly how strongly readers respond to such "old news" two years ago, when she edited a cover story about the "Ice Man," a Stone Age human trapped and preserved in an Austrian glacier. It was one of the year's most popular stories. Last year she repeated the experience with a cover updating the conventional wisdom about dinosaurs; Alexander has had similar success with a cover exploring the dawn of life. Notes Wallis: "If you have a new artifact to look at -- the skull of an early hominid, the talon of a velociraptor -- you can engage...