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Sources: GregAplet, the Wilderness Society; Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University; William Romme, Colorado State University; AP; National Interagency Fire Center; U.S. Forest Service
...ways to spot troublemakers in their ranks, psychologists are asking deeper questions. What is it about fire that so seduces and unbalances people hired to control it? What is it about being humans that draws us to flames and repels us as well? As environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne of Arizona State University points out: "Human beings as a species have a monopoly on fire. But while we're physically equipped to handle it, we do not come programmed...
...fairness, it should be noted that director Phil Alden Robinson's movie (written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne) was shot before 9/11. You also have to observe that with some 27,000 nuclear devices floating around the world the possibility of one of them falling into the hands of a rogue group - in this instance Neo-Nazis - is not entirely improbable. Nor is the possibility that they might detonate the thing in the U.S. (in Baltimore, at a Super Bowl game), hoping that we'll blame the Russians and get World War III up and running, dreaming, too, that...