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...point of fact, monuments and scenic spots all over Britain are under virtual siege, with 18 million visitors pouring in every year. In the Lake District the National Trust has spent more than $2 million repairing erosion of public footpaths. Residents of Bath have trouble reaching their shops on summer Saturdays because of tourists descending on the town to see the Royal Crescent and the Roman baths. In North Devon 370,000 visitors a year overwhelm the picturesque harbor of Clovelly (pop. 400). Sometimes they even wander into private homes...
...Luis Obispo, a scenic town of 42,000 on California's central coast, until recently displayed a road sign with a happy face urging people to SMILE, YOU ARE 192 MILES FROM L.A. Mounting antigrowth pressure is aimed not only at Los Angeles as the symbol of overdevelopment but also at the increasing number of escapees from L.A., whose arrival is regarded as a threat to small-town ways. When Cornelius Deasy, 72, left L.A. to retire there and applied for water-drawing rights to irrigate his new popcorn farm, his neighbors were enraged. "We were the Ugly Americans...
Power companies get to play the heavy in more than their share of environmental dramas. If they're not damming scenic rivers or generating nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat...
...back in the house near Copenhagen where she was born. Its real subject is her 18 years as one man's wife and another's mistress on a farm near Nairobi, where the writer says she arrived a Dane and left a Masai. These events shaped the scenic, Oscar-winning Out of Africa, and playgoers who saw the movie may find this new version drably lacking in sense of place. Those who didn't, and who also haven't read Dinesen or her biographers, will probably judge the skittery stage narrative almost impossible to follow...
...Stephen and Maureen Reynolds decided to buy their first home -- a four- bedroom, two-bath, 30-year-old house on a scenic lot overlooking a ravine -- as soon as they saw that the Desert Storm air campaign was a roaring success. Reynolds, who designs travel-industry software for a Houston firm, figured that if the war was going that well, his job was safe. Says he: "Interest rates were good, we had finally saved up the money, the war was coming to a quick close, housing prices were rising. The future is looking a lot better...