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Although Saturday's 1.7 mile Charles River Run was a first-year intramural event, the first three people to cross the finish line were not students, but their proctors...
...national forest lands in Montana. Last year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness...
Hostility toward the Federal Government suffuses Nye County to a degree that an Easterner might find hard to believe. Even though most of the county is under federal control, residents still have more breathing space than most Americans--only one person per square mile, in contrast to 3,000 per square mile in California's Orange County. And despite federal regulations, Nye Countians can still graze the government-owned meadows, fish the lakes and hunt the forests. But these days the climate is such that every incident, however minor, seems to reinforce the case for rebellion. Jim Merlino, director...
Collins has always excelled at sports. In addition to her field hockey prowess, she was also a track star in the mile and a point guard for a two-time state champion team for her high school in Walpole, Massachusetts...
Even so, Opal left its gruesome mark. It was a dangerously quirky hurricane, tearing murderously into some areas while leaving nearby land relatively untouched. Property losses were estimated at $2 billion, making it the fourth most costly natural disaster in U.S. history. Opal utterly demolished much of a 140-mile stretch of coastline between Mobile and Panama City, Florida, including some of America's most exquisite beaches. It killed people with falling trees in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. But no major population areas caught the full force of its winds, and some towns directly in its path managed...