Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must wonder how Charles Krauthammer can call watching the cinematic wonder of Napoleon an ordeal, let alone liken it to running 100 miles over the Sierra Nevada...
...took along a Kodak box Brownie on a trip to Yosemite Valley, and what he saw through that lens awakened the taste of a lifetime. The mountains gave him not only his subject but an occupation: as a youth he took a caretaker's job there for the Sierra Club. Later, he would sit on the club's board of directors for 37 years and become an unflagging champion of environmental protection...
...were locked in cells that were too small to allow them to stand up or lie down and were put on the infamous "black diet," completely deprived of food or water. Of Guinea's nearly 6 million inhabitants, 2 million now live in exile in the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and other neighboring countries...
...often as not, large amounts of foreign food, cash and equipment never reach their intended destinations. A "transportation operator" in Sierra Leone received more than $2,000 from the government to distribute 150 tons of rice; investigators later discovered that the only vehicle he owned was a Honda motorcycle. During the '70s, badly needed relief supplies for Chadian refugees were routed through Nigeria. But the shipments never made it because the wife of a high government official in Chad demanded huge bribes from the Nigerian drivers...
...demand for specialized calendars of all types has been a boon to both bookstores and publishers. An estimated 600 titles are available this year, up from just 120 or so five years ago. Says Jon Beckmann, publisher of Sierra Club Books: "In the 1960s people never bought calendars." Nowadays they may buy several. The California-based Sierra Club was a pioneer in marketing richly illustrated calendars as wall and desk adornments. The organization expects to sell about 400,000 copies of its 1984 engagement book, which has pictures of natural vistas. Price: $7.95. Seeing the promotional value and fund-raising...