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...briefly recap the facts: ANWR is an immense tract of untamed land in northern Alaska originally created in 1960 by noted caribou-hugger President Dwight D. Eisenhower. For almost 20 years, oil companies have had their eyes set on the coastal regions of that sanctuary, where there may be oil. May be, of course, because no one really knows; current estimates are that ten billion barrels of oil may be extractable. Thus, in a decade or two, drilling thirty coastal locations in ANWR could theoretically provide the U.S. with four percent of its current oil needs, at its peak capacity...
STREISAND: Oh, yeah. He's a great hugger...
...environmentally friendly sport-utility vehicle? It's a tree hugger's dream, right up there with a fat-free cheeseburger and a healthy cigarette. So when Ford offered me an early test drive in its 2005 Escape Hybrid SUV, I was, suffice it to say, a tad skeptical...
...more grains, fruits and vegetables (but not exclusively) and cut back on fat and sweets (but not too much). Marketers are playing up the gourmet aspects of their products--and charging premium prices. "A lot of companies don't want to sell an organic product with a tree-hugger image anymore," says Michelle Barry, an analyst with the Hartman Group, a Seattle-based market-research firm. "They're marketing these products for their taste appeal and the social status connected with them...
...riled up about land-use issues? In the debate over the West's natural resources, many of you resorted to what the cowboys used to call fightin' words. "It's time for you left-wing media types to sit down, shut up and stop banging the tree-hugger drum," snapped a South Carolina man. Just as upset was a Louisiana woman who decried "the sickening, arrogant bias of TIME's reporting. The Unabomber is the spiritual brother of the environmentalists of whom you seem so enamored." On the other side of the shoot-out, a man from Bainbridge Island, Wash...