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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble at Sutter Creek (pop. 2,000) has helped spread alarm throughout the Mother Lode country, one of the fastest growing parts of California. And the worries extend all the way to Montana, where a delegation from the U.N. agency UNESCO last week toured the site of a proposed mine just 2 1/2 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups oppose the project as hazardous to the park's ecosystem, and President Clinton has imposed a moratorium on new mining in the area, which could impede the project's start-up. Among the danger signs: contamination of two nearby creeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARSENIC AND OLD MINES | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...Mother Lode...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Ice Cream Lover? Welcome to Eden | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...drug busters, Burma is Asia's mother lode, the source of 60% of the heroin coming into America. Last year, officials say, Burma seized less than 1% of the estimated 2,575 metric tons of opium its drug lords produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting in the Way of Good Policy | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet for his cause. Imaginative literature -- sacred texts or a rich lode of inspiring writing -- badly needs a less agonized champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurrah for Dead White Males! | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...Fossil Lode in the Gobi Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week April 3 -9 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

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