Word: sierras
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...weak voice was just above a whisper. "We need help. Can you please help us?" Border Patrol Agent Stanley Saathoff turned a crank to unlock the door of a red Missouri Pacific boxcar sitting on a siding in the small town of Sierra Blanca, 90 miles southeast of El Paso. A naked young man threw himself into the startled agent's arms. "You've been sent from heaven," the man moaned...
Mater notes that the notion of applying a Marshall Plan in a Third World context would be misguided. "Development aid is different from the Marshall Plan was because you don't have the infra-structure [already in place]. You can't go into Sierra Leone or Bangladesh and do that," he says...
...aficionado who lived in Ireland for 25 years and still holds an Irish passport. "It's based on Joyce, it takes place in Ireland, it stars my daughter and is written by my son." The man who directed his father Walter in the 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (for which both won Academy Awards) and guided Anjelica to last year's supporting-actress Oscar in Prizzi's Honor has now added Tony, 36, the author of the screenplay, to the family business...
Staffers attribute TNC's success to its philosophy of nonconfrontation. While the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, for example, employ litigation, lobbying and publicity as weapons, TNC prefers to use gentle persuasion -- and cash. "We have very little to do with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself...
...This sort of thing raises the ire of many environmentalists. The January issue of Mother Jones scolds Rockwell for making Adams into an "arms peddler." Carl Pope, political director of the Sierra Club, calls Rockwell's use of the Adams photographs the "ultimate in cynicism." But Rockwell paid a substantial fee to the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust for permission to use the photos. Contends Trustee John Schaefer: "Adams was a patriot. He believed in a strong defense...