Word: preservationism
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I am trying, with great difficulty, to convey the ludicrous juxtaposition we saw. The almost farcical nature of our system of "justice," which confines both inmates and guards for almost incomprehensible reasons having to do with preservation of the myth of good order, and the government protected by that myth...
According to a 1960 federal law, the 154 national forests in the U.S. must be used for multiple purposes-recreation, timbering, grazing, wildlife preservation, watershed protection. But the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the Agriculture Department that manages national forests, has lately given top priority to private logging on...
Lumbermen argued just as strongly that clear-cutting helps control disease and produces "even-age" forests that provide quality timber. They stressed economics: the yield for a clear-cut area is 100%, compared to about 60% for selective cutting. Howard Bennett, secretary-manager of Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, went even further...
>Struck down a 68-year-old District of Columbia law that made it a crime for any doctor to perform an abortion except when necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or health. Finding the law unconstitutionally vague, Gesell urged Congress to write "a far more scientific...
James' rivals may also soon include a few more individual Taylors. Thus far Livingston, Alex and Kate have openly?though in Livingston's case not always willingly?ridden on James' coattails. Yet the tendency to see Livingston merely as an "up" imitation of James' "down" is unfair and misleading, as...