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...fight over the shape of the future is even fiercer on the local level than in the state capitals of the Northwest. The battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white...
...area one of the last and largest stretches of true wilderness left on earth (and hence of atavistic concern); it is also the arena where the last act in a long American drama is being played out. McPhee characterizes the struggle as "the Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need...
Nabie Yayah Swaray is a sophomore and has lived in Sierra Leone all of his life. He has written several plays about West Africa, two of which will be produced this spring...
...April of 1977, I was forced by persistent ill-health to return to my native country, Sierra Leone, for "native treatment." This may sound ridiculous to the reader, why I had to leave the United States where I could have received good medical treatment. Not that I found the American medical treatment less helpful, but I preferred "native treatment" because I felt it would be more efficacious to my health. Thus I have the conviction that the African people will never find a cure to the disease that is plaguing their continent until they become their own physician...
...cutting back in Youngstown while expanding elsewhere. The mills lining the Mahoning River are so old that some steelmen describe them as antiques. Bringing them up to modern standards would be an expensive job, and it cannot be put off. A few days before the Sheet & Tube decision, the Sierra Club won a federal court ruling ending the exemption that eight Mahoning valley steel plants had won from meeting federal clean-water standards...