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...Indian subcontinent four to five degrees, disrupting the monsoon rains that are essential to crops for the nations of that area. "If this goes on until spring and summer, it will be a direct threat to their food supply, which is already marginal," says Anne Ehrlich, a Sierra Club expert...
What a guy! What an anachronism! For Dunbar is not a 1990s yuppie who suddenly decides to take his Sierra Club membership seriously. He is a lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry, circa 1864. Given command of a small fort deep in Sioux country, he finds that its garrison has mysteriously disappeared. That provides him the freedom for self-discovery and for developing peaceable relationships with the Indians, as well as a romance with Stands with a Fist, a white woman who was taken captive by Indians as a child (hauntingly played by Mary McDonnell...
...dangling from a 70-ft. sheer limestone cliff. Hill, 29, is the world's best woman rock climber. Her vertical inclination dates back to her California childhood, when she displayed an early enthusiasm for climbing walls, telephone poles and trees. Before long she graduated to scaling cliffs in the Sierra Nevadas. "I think I'm a really fortunate person, because what I'm doing for a career is also my passion," says the 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. Hill. Her long-term plans include finishing her book, The Art of Free Climbing, making a climbing video and designing...
...Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund challenged Spear's opinion, and in June, Congress's Governmental Accounting Office labeled his report as "fraudulent...
...light of the false basis for the rider's passage in Congress, the Sierra Club Legal Defense appealed to the U.S. Justice Department to change the exception that allows development of Mt. Graham...