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...considers himself an environmentalist, and in recent years -- especially in the past three weeks -- he has had plenty of company. But for most of its history, Alaska has not been dominated by the conservation ethic. Almost from its discovery in 1741 by Vitus Bering, Alaska was seen as a land to be exploited for all it was worth. At first the lure was furs, and then whaling, timber and fishing. When the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7 million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom...
...vast majority of the immigrants, the whole point of coming to Alaska was to profit from the land. Red Swanson, who arrived in 1945, is a good example. For more than 40 years he has bulldozed Alaska, pumped oil out of it, cut down its trees and paved it with asphalt. Says Swanson: "The environmentalists have stopped Alaska from being great. They say hundreds of birds have been killed by this oil spill. But we have millions of birds. These things happen...
...Slope, just east of Prudhoe Bay, may contain some 9 billion bbl. of oil, and they are eager to drill there. President Bush and the U.S. Interior Department favor opening up the area to exploration and development. Unlike Bristol Bay, where powerful fishing interests have always fought drilling, the land adjacent to this preserve is home only to a handful of Inupiat. Alaskan politicians thus have had little to lose and much to gain by pushing for exploration -- even the usually pro-environment Governor Cowper, who favors the plan...
Long before there was a Magic Kingdom, Florida was an enchanted land, a place where the vernal verities of spring training stopped time in its tracks. A recent preseason game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds in Plant City reassured like a Norman Rockwell painting: in some ways, things haven't changed. Bats are swinging, and all's right with the nation. The rituals that are played out in Florida and Arizona from early March into April are part of baseball's enduring legacy, and generations of Northerners have taken refuge here in the balmy revels...
...live together, and I believe now they should live together. I was taught by my parents from a very early age one very important thing. If that would be understood, all of us could live in peace. It is that all the rights to this country, to the land of Israel -- especially Judea and Samaria -- are Jewish. I am talking about rights over the land. But everyone who lives in the country should have all the rights of the country...