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...opinion, Mr. Baldwin's destination of choice is a much classier place--although the Canadians do have that neat new territory just below the Arctic Circle, Nunavut, where the license plates are shaped like polar bears and the capital city has about 66 inhabitants. But whether they are bound for the Champs-Elysees or the Great White North, liberal Harvardians and the Baldwin of Baldwins seem to have one thing in common: they are, deep in their progressive little souls, terrified of Republicans...
...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...
...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...