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In a way, Mathers is part of a re-creation, edging back toward an open and exhilarating country that was swept away by bad government policy and greed. Homesteading was a tragedy in most of the plains, pitting small farmers against the relentless weather. It was no contest. But then...
The Poppers identified 139,000 sq. mi. as poor and emptying, and they suggested that through a consortium of public and private owners and institutions, the world's largest game preserve be created and woven around those areas that are still viable. Government payments would be used to idle the...
Both sides remain publicly committed to their agreed-upon goal of cutting $50 billion out of the deficit next year as a down payment on $500 billion in reductions by 1996. But despite the burst of bipartisan determination, Bush is unlikely to be presented with an accord when he returns...
The result is desertification, a gradual conversion of marginal land into wasteland. This process is often driven by population pressures, which force people to work lands unsuitable for agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, settlers move into an area when it is wet and green, and then stay and...
"The idea--besides obvious messages about how they have respect for the land and that chemical and nuclear weapons do not--was that though the anthropologist sees them as so much more important, the nomads don't feel any different. Only we saw them as marginal; their world has always...