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First of all, she hit the right mark when she points out that the majority of opponents to environmental change are average middle-class American citizens who, like the loggers in the Northwest, are opposed to losing jobs or financial opportunities due to environmental regulations like the law protecting the endangered spotted owl. They feel they have a constitutional right to take advantage of these financial opportunities, a right which is being violated by environmental laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Destroying Nature is Suicide | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Shopping period can also be difficult for professors, says Jo Ann Hackett, professor of the practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic epigraphy. Faculty members waste vast amounts of paper in unused syllabi. For an entire week attendance in lectures and seminars fluctuates...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: SCRAMBLING FOR A JOB | 2/28/1992 | See Source »

...common perception is that the only people who oppose environmentalist laws are greedy industrialists and arrogant Darwinians convinced of Homo sapiens' innate superiority. In fact, the dissenters are more likely to be working-class Americans, like the loggers in the Northwest who are losing their jobs because virgin forests they cut are the habitat of the endangered spotted...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: I Lost My Job to an Owl | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...customers of one romance line in Nevada may feel particularly bamboozled when they learn of a lawsuit filed by Darryl Malone against his employer, Northwest Nevada Telco...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

...temptress with long, silky hair, a fantasy figure and a gift for off-color gab. But Raven's real talent, it turns out, was for mimicry. The voice belongs to Darryl Malone, a 165-lb. National Guardsman, husband and father of four children who is now suing Northwest Nevada Telco for, of all things, sex discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Discrimination: Falsetto Advertising | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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