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Though the fiery summer of 1988 scared away tourists, it had relatively little impact on Yellowstone's animals, compared with the normal rigors of winter. The fires killed only 335 of the 31,000-member elk herd. But a harsh winter eliminated almost 5,000 more, and their carcasses lie in various states of decomposition throughout the park...
Yellowstone's herd of 2,700 bison was reduced more by a highly controversial hunt last fall and winter just outside the park (570 killed) and harsh weather (260) than by the fire (9). Yellowstone's best-known residents, 200 or so grizzlies, may have been reduced by a total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long...
...your contemporary novels you portray harsh confrontation between black and white. In Tar Baby a character says, "White folks and black folks should not sit down and eat together or do any of those personal things in life." It seems hopeless if we can't bridge the abysses you see between sexes, classes, races...
More important than rancor over specific positions is the impression that social crusading is turning the faith into a "political agenda masked with a veneer of spirituality," in the harsh words of Kent Hill of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy. A. James Reichley of the Brookings Institution believes that mainline "social and political action takes away from the religious focus." Mainliners sometimes seem more convinced about the virtues of the Sandinistas or the vices of Nestle than, say, the meaning of Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection...
Then the unthinkable happened. So many officials disagreed with Deng's directive to smash the protest that he was forced to rescind it. Some 100 staff members at the People's Daily signed a letter to their bosses challenging the paper's harsh editorial. Within the party, opposition to a crackdown was no less vehement. "The real dissatisfaction of the cadres was made known to Li shortly after the editorial was presented," said a knowledgeable Communist Party member. "They feared that if the leaders suppressed the demonstration and blood was shed, it would be like a big fire that would...