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Although a poll conducted by the Wilderness Society indicates that more than 68 percent of Arizonans support the President's decision, TIME Denver correspondent Dick Woodbury says there are still plenty of "rank-and-file, conservative activist ranchers who are upset they weren't consulted before the announcement was made." And while a spokesperson from the Department of the Interior insists that only logging, clear-cutting and mining will be banned from the affected land, there are plenty of ranchers worried about their grazing rights. "This is a symptom of some westerners' inherent antipathy toward Washington and people from...
Hartlage says that he didn't feel quite important enough as a simple "rank-and-file member...
...companion protocol devised by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 created the World Wide Web, which simplified and popularized navigation on the Net. The idea that anyone in the world can publish information and have it instantly available to anyone else in the world created a revolution that will rank with Gutenberg...
Last week's handover of the Panama Canal neatly brackets the American Century. It begins with Theodore Roosevelt conceiving the canal and, with it, America ascending to the rank of Great Power. It ends with America so great a power, so serenely dominant in the world, that it can give away T.R.'s strategic jewel with hardly a notice...
...challenge and cut down the big guy. Two centuries ago, Russia, Prussia, Britain and Austria rallied together to defeat Napoleonic France's bid for European hegemony. The miracle of the '90s has been the dog that didn't bark: Where is the opposition, where are the coalitions of second-rank states rising to challenge Pax Americana...