Word: newports
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...were very disappointed by Steve Lopez's biased report of Perrier's bid for a high-capacity-well permit near the Wisconsin communities of New Haven and Newport [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 25]. Perrier has not been indifferent to the environment or to local concerns but has gone to extraordinary lengths to include the residents. According to Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, Perrier has agreed to the most restrictive high-capacity-well permit ever issued in the state. The company will continue to extend its scientific testing and monitoring in the months ahead. Our permit absolutely guarantees there will...
...international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from Warner Bros., the Humane Society of the U.S. and cell-phone tycoon Craig McCaw; and the environmental group Earth...
...true, but there is still a place in the Lower 48 where cell phones don't work and no one is daffy enough to pay twice the price of gasoline for designer water. They don't have to. Springwater bubbles up everywhere in the villages of New Haven and Newport, an hour north of Madison...
...locals, many of them retired, wondered, "Who needs this?" says Newport's Hiroshi Kanno, 63. Retired people don't need jobs; nor do they need trucks rumbling to and from a big processing plant. And they certainly don't need an outsider bottle-feeding their water to a nation of self-indulgent yuppies. "Taking springwater out of any ecosystem is like taking blood out of people," says John Steinhaus, 62. And so began a war that rages to this day. Country roads are flagged with GO AWAY PERRIER! signs, and villagers brainstorm daily to keep multibillion-dollar Perrier from siphoning...
Since this heyday of affluent vacationers, nothing much happened to Newport for many decades. All of that changed, however, when a man of epic proportions recently stepped from its ranks to reclaim the glory of the small seaside city on an island far away in the South China Sea. With the hubris of Oedipus, the resilience of Odysseus, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the flamboyance of Liberace and the physique of Santa Claus, this Newport native and self-proclaimed "fat, naked fag" managed to outwit, outplay and outlast in life's ultimate challenge. His name: Richard Hatch...