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Most of the buildings targeted are abandoned 2-to-3 story homes in the northwest section of the city, Burton says. He said the fire department believes that the burned-out dwellings may be the work of competitive drug dealers, their vengeful customers, or high school kids looking for entertainment on a Saturday night...
Crowe sets his film Today, 1992. Surely someday arty sociologists and assorted academicians will lecture about how Singles serves as "a timely representation of relational folkways in the immediate postcold war Pacific Northwest." Undergraduates will ponder whether good-looks and Seattle correlate or coincide...
...vacation-seeker would want to spend time in the barren, broken swaths of logged countryside. The loggers have turned many beautiful areas of the Pacific Northwest into ugly, bare brown-spots--almost totally devoid of life...
...whole issue comes down to politics and economics. In a quest to woo voters from the rural Northwest, conservative politicians portray the issue as jobs versus the environment, security versus the owl. The move is on to water down the Endangered Species Act in order to allow the timber industry to retain current employment levels and log the spotted owl into extinction...
President Bush, quick to focus on such popular resentment while campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, has found it easy to scapegoat the owl for the region's economic woes. Speaking in Colville, Washington on Monday, Bush said "Not far from here is a timber town called Forks. Like Colville, Forks supported a mill, and the mill supported a community. Because of a lack of timber, the mill had to close. Today unemployment at Forks is at 20 percent," Bush said. "It's time to put people ahead of owls," he concluded...