Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Directory assistance is $1.40 per call in most markets when using 555-1212. Try local and national assistance at 411. If your area has it, the toll is still expensive at 95[cents] per call, but the clear choice...
...first thing I learned in the class, which was offered through Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities, of Conway, N.H., in conjunction with my local hiking club, was to adjust my definition of wilderness conditions. Any activity taking place more than an hour away from medical attention--whether it's hiking all day or sailing a mile offshore--can quickly feel as if it's in a remote wilderness when an accident occurs. As Dr. Frank Hubbell, one of the founders of SOLO, notes, "When you get to a trailhead, you have to start thinking like a pioneer...
...this is new to me. Even the Rockies look different here, more brooding and stuck up. The only fishing I've ever done is the kind Chouinard dismisses as too easy for words--"with live worms!" At the local store, where we got our one-day licenses, I noted the names of the flies on sale: Ausable Wulff, Hare's Ear, Goofus Bug, Wild Muddler. Wild Muddler appealed to me. Chouinard--who is small and tightly built, with the forearms of the blacksmith he once was--wears green canvas sneakers with holes, a pair of yellowed sweat socks, denim shorts...
...FINE WINE FROM THE UNTAINTED VINE Both sommeliers and environmentalists have toasted California's award-winning Sanford Winery. For 16 years, vintners Richard and Thekla Sanford have organically produced wines like this Chardonnay, while taking up such conservation causes as preserving local oak woodlands
...West Africa, where she did as much as six hours' worth of volunteer work each day for three weeks in a village named Ho, 50 miles north of Accra, Ghana. Under the auspices of the organization Cross-Cultural Solutions, Carnright, a part-time real estate agent, assisted in a local nursery school, reading to children, teaching them songs, numbers and colors, and telling them about life in America...