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From his seat aboard a U.S. Sierra helicopter, Airman Mike Stewart looks down on a cruel artifact from the tsunami. Surveying the ruins of Meulaboh in Aceh province, his chopper passes over an intact tower clock that hasn't moved since the earthquake struck. Stewart and his crew are on one of their six daily runs to deliver supplies to some of Indonesia's most remote villages--all part of Operation Unified Assistance, the largest U.S. military operation in Asia since Vietnam and the backbone of the global campaign to fend off hunger and disease among tsunami survivors. For combat...
Opponents of the corridor range from environmentalists (the Sierra Club has called it "evil") to the Texas Republican Party, which has urged the legislature to repeal it. Texas, which is losing more land to sprawl than any other state, would need more than 9,000 sq. mi. of right-of-way for the corridors, affecting critical wetlands and pristine prairie lands. The Big Thicket National Preserve, considered "the biological crossroads of North America" for its mix of habitats, was put on the list of most-endangered parks by the National Parks Conservation Association this year, in part because...
...islands off South Carolina and Georgia, an old woman teaches her granddaughter the intricate art of sewing sweet-grass baskets. It's a skill that goes back to the West Africa of four centuries ago, what is now Sierra Leone and Senegal. This eloquently written, resplendently illustrated book tells how the practitioners of that art endured enslavement and deportation to America, the Civil War, the coming of the 20th century and the social dislocations of World War II--all the while struggling to preserve their native traditions. Today sweet-grass baskets are sewn mostly for the tourist trade, but that...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled up in an SUV outside Mule Creek State Prison in the Sierra foothills. The Governor was in combat mode. Of all the legacies of dysfunction he had inherited from his predecessor, Gray Davis, the situation in the prisons was one of the most flagrant. Big campaign donations from the prison guards' union to Davis had ensured that the guards in 2002 won 34% wage increases over five years, and with overtime many were earning fat salaries; one pulled in more than the state's attorney general. But the work practices of the guards lagged. They seemed...
...politics. Besides endorsing stem-cell research, the Governor signed off on measures that would cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars 22% by 2012 (a move that nine automakers challenged in court last week) and allow hybrid vehicles to use carpool lanes on freeways. He created the 25 million-acre Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the biggest nature conservancy in the state. He signed a bill prohibiting sale of .50-cal. guns, and came out for a ban, to take effect in 2012, on force-feeding ducks, which is how foie gras is produced. "Arnold is the leading indicator of the revenge...