Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel! What the hell are you doing? Watch the road...
Perhaps most acclaimed for her 1989 autobiography, The Road to Coorain, Conway is now a visiting professor...
...Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students go out with Americorps volunteers three days a week to track animals, learn compass- and map-reading skills and study water usage and pollution. High schoolers pursue research projects: a study of how highway salt affects vegetation or a local lumber company's harvesting practices...
...states. Clinton and Gore largely beat back--with some exceptions--an assault on environmental laws and regulations by Republicans when they captured the House and Senate in 1994, and have found ways around hostile legislators to implement policies favored by conservationists, like reining in the U.S. Forest Service's road-building program...
...road to Kosare rises along a nearly impassable dirt track rutted by farm tractors pulling loads of ammunition up the slopes. From the road it is easy to spot Serb-held towns in the valley below, many marked by rising columns of smoke. Ammunition boxes are stacked in small crevices. Soldiers huddle near fires made from the empty crates. Serbian shells scream continuously, reverberating through the canyons. Soldiers, some in uniform, others in track suits, carry everything from bolt-action carbines to Kalashnikovs. There are two questions: Where is the commander, and where are the Serbs...