Word: milles
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...save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses U.S. mills and mill workers and exports round, unprocessed logs from private forests to Japan...
...Mill City, Oregon, two former friends and business partners, now passionate adversaries, wrangle publicly over whether the town is worth the last old trees. Tom Hirons, tough, honest and worn down, runs a small logging company that is starved for work. George Atiyeh is a cocky, down-home environmentalist. His obsession is protecting Opal Creek, a 6,800-acre stand of superb old growth in the western Cascade Mountains. Seideman, a TIME reporter, follows his two feuding guides, and the reader, tagging along, learns, among other things, why loggers tend to hit the bars after a week's work. Though...
...price war, though, is only a symptom of more fundamental transformation taking place in the industry, not all of which will be to the advantage of the U.S. As the PC has changed from a magic black box to a run-of-the-mill commodity like a television set or a radio, so has the economics of the business. Since there is no mystery to the technology, PCs can be manufactured as well as priced like any other commodity. That fact has helped make computers a more global business, but it has also played into the hands of copycat...
...neither side in the great forest debate was pleased. A shocked logging industry claimed that the plan would wipe out 85,000 jobs and devastate timber-dependent towns. "The program is dead on arrival," fumed mill owner John Hampton, chairman of the Northwest Forest Resource Council. And while protesting loggers in the Northwest tossed empty caskets on a flaming pyre and sent a funeral wreath to the White House, House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington State was smoldering...
...facing down the threat of totalitarianism, democratic societies have grown used to the idea that the bare mechanism of choosing leaders is sufficient for democracy. In the 19th century, philosophers constantly argued and debated what the rights and ideals of democracy might be. John Stuart Mill, a passionate libertarian, was convinced that visions of freedom and happiness must be constantly discussed, altered and changed as societies change, lest they fall into "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." In our time, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, "Men do not live < only by fighting evils. They live...