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...Federal Aviation Administration established a special federal air regulation to help restore the "natural quiet" to the Grand Canyon. This was done with the support of the air-tour industry. The new requirements confine aircraft to strictly defined and narrow flight corridors. Today 92% of park visitors report that they are not adversely affected by aircraft sound in the Grand Canyon, and backcountry park visitors report seeing or hearing only one or two aircraft a day. The contention that visitors can't enjoy the park because of the "noisy aerial onslaught" is without factual basis. DAN ANDERSON, President National...
...month-old photo of Yeltsin, has little else to go on. Russian television today simply showed Yeltsin receiving a bunch of flowers inside the Central Clinical Hospital, then his motorcade speeding away through the hospital gate.Yeltsin apparently has a form of heart diseasecalled unstable angina, in which arteries narrow and diminish the blood supply to the heart...
Even so, the antiabortion forces are picking their shots carefully and, the other side concedes, shrewdly. Rather than trying to overturn Roe v. Wade entirely, they are focusing on more narrow questions that tap into the nation's deep ambivalence about abortion. "We are not trying to come in and suddenly make radical changes," said freshman Republican Enid Greene Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much...
...first glance the park seems spacious enough to accommodate all comers. It covers more than 1.2 million acres and the most dramatic 56-mile stretch of the 277-mile-long Grand Canyon. But the broad vistas are deceptive. The rugged terrain funnels visitors along narrow strips of trails and roads alongside both rims and into facilities that have been overcrowded for years...
Unlike the other first-year residences,Greenough feels much like a "typical" collegedorm. Long narrow hallways, tiny boxy rooms, andcommunal bathrooms are the norm here...