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...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...
Worse still, all of Whitman's best "green" assets, particularly with regard for open space, are countered by a Secretary of the Interior (Gail Norton) who, according to one New York Times letter writer, has "pro-business views [that] make Christie Whitman look like John Muir." Her record on environmental issues is similarly murky, and there is evidence that, in her position as the attorney general of Colorado, Norton rejected the prosecution of a number of pollution cases which would have hurt business interests. Two of the largest lawsuits were subsequently pursued by private environmental groups and resulted...
American environmentalism, as a credo, as an ideology, as whatever you'd like to call it, is a remarkably democratic tradition. Whether analyzing the thought of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, or that of John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies...
...Friday, with a nod to the influence of Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Al Gore, Clinton signed an executive order protecting one third of U.S. forest land from logging and road construction. The order, which affects 58 million acres in 39 states, is the most aggressive protection act since Jimmy Carter designated huge swaths of Alaskan wilderness off-limits to developers. Environmental lobbyists, already pleased with Clinton's record of land protection, are thrilled by his latest move. "This is a great moment in history," Ken Rait, director of the Heritage Forest Campaign, told the New York Times...
Chance plays a huge role in crashes, so is there any way to enhance the odds that you will walk away from an accident? Helen Muir of Britain's Cranfield University writes that the difference between survival and death is often deceptively simple. "Those who survive are those who paid attention to the safety briefing and used that information in their escape." That means listening closely to the preflight safety briefing, reading the safety card in the seatback in front of you, knowing where the exits are and how far away you are from them. You should count the number...