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...base of the mountains, Highway 101 snakes around the Olympic peninsula following a silent, morose track through endless clear cuts. Coarse and hideous, with brush piled in heaps, the naked scars on the mountains emanate destruction and death. Here, the logging companies clear cut the land entirely, and then commence ‘sustainable logging practices,’ which entail replanting the tracts in rows of trees that grow until they are large enough to be cut again...
...National Park, of course, the owls are protected from these intrusions. Discreetly nesting fifty or a hundred feet off the ground in huge, old trees, the protective adult owl and the shy chicks make for elusive subjects. I have spent many rainy hours in the silent forest, negotiating rock-strewn ravines, climbing over soft rotting logs and thrashing through wet underbrush—all the while hooting for the birds that are harder to find every year...
They huddle in their coats, silent, at the stone steps of the yellow and white home. Streams of mist pour from their mouths. At last someone speaks. “It’s a perfect day for tea,” he says...
...DIED. EDWARD LATIMER "NED" BEACH, 84, U.S. Navy captain and author who wrote the best-selling submarine thriller Run Silent, Run Deep, which was made into a 1958 movie starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster; in Washington D.C. Beach was awarded 10 decorations for bravery during World War II, including the Navy Cross for his role in sinking Japanese ships close to enemy shores. In 1960 he commanded a submarine that circled the world in 84 days without surfacing?a record that still stands...
Last April, members of several liberal student groups—with Smith in the forefront—gathered in the Yard wearing white masks in a silent protest of lack of diversity in the curriculum...