Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right, I know the ecologically correct line: "They won't bother you if you don't bother them." But who knows what bothers a bear? Take that fellow who was innocently jogging in Grand Teton National Park in August 1994 and ended up contributing an entire muscle group, the sartorius, to some grizzly's brunch. Or there was the guy who returned to his rental cabin in Alaska to find a black bear "feeding on" his erstwhile wife, as a newspaper tactfully put it. Not to mention any number of sleeping campers whose sleeping bags were somehow mistaken...
...high-protein pick-me-up. If there's any reason to keep bears around, it's because they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could wipe out a city. And no one, to my knowledge, has ever cuddled...
Some day soon the track at Olympic Stadium will be sold off. The stadium, after all, is being converted into a baseball park, and in keeping with the never-say-die spirit of commerce shown by the Games of Atlanta, an auction will be held for sections of the vulcanized rubber track that produced two world records, 13 Olympic records and countless dramas. What are we bid for the finish line of Lane...
...Star Wars or Indiana Jones--movies that are not geared to kids." Disney's Vogel points out that some of the most successful pictures of all time are now perceived as family films even if they didn't start out that way. Millions of kids eventually saw Jurassic Park, for example, but Universal, which released it, initially warned that young children might find it too scary. "If it had been marketed under a family label, would it have been criticized?" Vogel asks. "More than likely...
...wrote, "many associations--gated suburbs and business-improvement districts, known as BIDS (which have their own police forces)--are driven in some respects by self-concerned fear." Then he goes on to include the Viper militia in the same paragraph! As former chairman of New York City's Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, I spent 10 years retrieving that seven-acre park from drug dealers. Today it gives pleasure to thousands who previously avoided it. Without a bid this would not have been possible. The major BIDS in the New York area have vastly improved the quality of life here. ANDREW...