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...because of my experience as an ambassador and Congressman on the banking committee." Even during the campaign he has flown to London to do work as a consultant for an engineering company, and to Japan for a meeting of the International Olympic Committee. When not crossing one or another ocean, he has raised money from celebrity friends in Hollywood and New York City (Norman Lear welcoming him on the West Coast, Gloria Steinem on the East...
...Take Oregon's Douglas County, which, like the fir, is named for the Scottish botanist David Douglas. Oregon produces more lumber than any other state, and Douglas County boasts that it is the timber capital of the world. It stretches from the Cascades in the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. There one can tune in to Timber Radio KTBR, feel the roads tremble beneath logging trucks and watch children use Lego sets to haul sticks out of imaginary forests. In the current struggle, Douglas County is ground zero, likely to take as direct an economic...
Even given its ocean barriers and the ecological safety margins provided by its vast interior spaces and abundant resources, America is vulnerable to transnational environmental threats such as global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion. "A new kind of international security threat is advancing on us," warns Gus Speth, president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, a leading environmental think tank. "The world's geopolitical systems may be faring better, but its ecological systems are in trouble...
...Malaria, tuberculosis, cancer and the effects of smoking and other disorders are, for the most part in the western world, conquered. But in our borders south of us and across the ocean, to the east and the west, too many of our brothers die from preventable diseases," he said...
...radio show, broadcast weekly "from ocean to ocean, with lotions of love," makes Winchell, in every sense, a media monster. He knows there is something cancerous about American celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr...