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...grasp the distinction by looking out from any one of a thousand promontories in the Northwest. Clear-cutting -- the indiscriminate leveling of every tree in an area -- has left the wilderness fragmented and scarred. Long after the last truck has pulled out, heavy with logs, and the debris has been torched, what remains is a blackened earth, pockmarked and studded with tombstone-like stumps. "It looks like Alamogordo, as if it's been nuked," concedes Dan Schindler, a Forest Service district ranger...
...improving quality and cracking down on costs. In contrast to the somewhat autocratic Smith, though, the new chief is by nature a team leader, known for listening to the troops. To rebuild customer enthusiasm, GM needs some better ideas. Industry experts who applauded Stempel's appointment hope his thorough grasp of what makes cars go will help him move more of them out of the showrooms...
...Yorkers, who pride themselves on having the nation's thickest urban carapaces, are cracking under the tightening grasp of the homeless. When then Mayor Ed Koch urged Gothamites two years ago to stop giving to panhandlers because many "just don't want to work for a living," residents shrugged off the curmudgeonly remark as the latest from the city's self-appointed curmudgeon. But Koch's sour mood has caught on over the past twelve months, surfacing recently in cartoons, editorials, dinner conversations and official campaigns to move the city's vagrants out of its subway, bus and train stations...
...celebration of life is an embrace of both the good and the bad, and this is the point that the men of the play do not grasp. Their fear of death--and birth--leads them to destroy the things they "love" in an attempt to gain control over their inevitably finite existence...
Marino argued that 18 inches of news copy is not enough space to explain the ambitious goals of experimental theater, which he suggests "an undergraduate reviewer" cannot understand. But college reviewers--with adequate background--can grasp the elements of theater as well as any director...