Word: polarity
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...this for Lee: he is an equal-opportunity annoyer. He condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...
...made influences or by this generation. Historical evidence documents the presence of crops in Greenland for a few centuries after it was settled by the Vikings, a millennium ago. These atmospheric climate changes occur naturally. The sky isn't falling, and we aren't permanently melting the polar ice. LOREN D. HAMLIN Tucson, Ariz...
Ecotours are often about native culture as well as animals. At Knight Inlet in western Canada, guests may visit the home village of guide Nick Chowdhury, a member of the Tanakteuk Band. Across the country in a very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park. Traveling with Free Spirit Air Adventures www.elmhirst.com) Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they...
...Piacentinis learned about the polar-bear park by chance, but many ecotourists find out about such places from television or magazines--and then use the Internet to research or book their trips. Knight Inlet Lodge's Internet site, www.grizzlytours.com has helped attract people from the U.S. and 17 other countries. Larry Jandrew chose Knight Inlet because his wife Barb, a bear fan, had watched an A&E television show, in which the lodge was touted as the fifth most exotic vacation on earth...
...Canada, where so much wilderness still provides a home to hundreds of species of birds and other animals, the ecotourist can fly north to watch the polar bears, drive a few hours from Toronto to listen to wolves, or skim over dark forests and mist-swathed mountains in a tiny floatplane, as I did to reach Knight Inlet. The journey is one of the most satisfying aspects of an adventure that will make even a jaded world traveler feel like a child whose picture book has come to life...