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Rosgen's drive to restore rivers was born of rage. As a young Forest Service worker, he was assigned to inspect an area in his native north Idaho. There, he saw a pristine stream that had been ruined by runoff from timber clear cutting. Rosgen lost his temper, eventually quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stream Saver: Tucking Rivers Into Their Beds | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

Jessie Alderson says Aboriginal people welcome tourism: "We like tourists coming here because they bring a lot of money into the park." But Jeffrey Lee, a traditional owner from the Djok clan, says, "We are still really sad about the death of that German tourist and we want to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing Off Kakadu | 3/23/2004 | See Source »

Maps are practically obsolete. For explorers, maps came in handy for charting a course through unknown lands and letting the traveler know where he was along the way. The map was a decoding device, a conceptual bridge that matched the mental “Where am I?�...

Author: By Christopher W. Snyder, WRIT SMALL | Title: Flying Abstraction Airlines | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

13. While taking an hour long shower, do not convert the bathroom into your own personal rainforest, complete with floating clouds of mists and flowing rivers. Other people will need to come in after you and they probably would like to actually be able to see themselves in the mirror...

Author: By Amanda L. Rautenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Manners & the (Harvard) Universe | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

Then there is Gardner?s bold claim that Kerry use to take PCF-44 four or five miles from shore every night so not to get shot at. When pressed how this could be so, since oftentimes they were 25 miles upriver, he backed down. ?Okay, when we were in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

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