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...Ravi modestly signed autographs. Kind conversations about his sister, Mickey, and his love of jazz floated to his listeners. Many contented fans calmly dispersed before the second set, leaving only the hard-core fans rapt past midnight. Musical glitter from the trumpet coated the few full chairs in a shade of mystery, beginning with "Mixed Media," a song composed by Ravi...
...Deal, though they have some big trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams for spawning. Aggressive, steep-slope logging cuts shade and pours down sediment. This is no secret, but the state has not enforced regulations to protect salmon streams, and the new Headwaters legislation, say critics, stipulates buffer zones too narrow to be effective...
...colorful tapestry hangs as a curtain over the window, replacing the standard-issue white shade. A red-velvet-covered wood table sits next to an easy chair, while a hand-carved blow gun hangs above the fire-place...
That does not happen very often in a frantic media age where tales of every conceivable variety and shade of veracity course constantly through the national consciousness. Because television is a medium designed for leaving impressions, not memories, the television age is one in which facts and words and truth are maddeningly elusive, in which national memories are extraordinarily shallow. Yet there remains one stubborn barrier to total amnesia. The law: ancient, ponderous, interminable, immovable. But fixedly real...
Anita Parman, 59, is here with roughly 30 family members who look like a lost division of the convoy from The Grapes of Wrath. Dogs dive for shade under beat-up trailers, and dust-coated kids wear wet towels to beat the bastard sun. Last fall Anita got pulled over while living up north and had to cough up $1,500 for car insurance and a smog inspection, so she said the hell with that. "I'd rather get me a horse and a couple of burros and live here...