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...trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams for spawning. Aggressive, steep-slope logging cuts shade and pours down sediment. This is no secret, but the state has not enforced regulations to protect salmon streams, and the new Headwaters legislation, say critics, stipulates buffer zones too narrow to be effective...
...harbor boats are dashed to splinters on the sudden sand. For five minutes or perhaps 30, the sea is empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...
...SPEAKS UP FOR THE WHITE MAJORITY!) But does it help the average duck hunter to preserve the sporting life? Or even the Second Amendment fundamentalist who believes, as Heston does, that any infringement of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a slide down the slope of totalitarianism? N.R.A. opponents suggest it is convenient for the group to try to drown out the clamor against handguns by changing the subject. But to Heston, who quips that "in Hollywood there are more gun owners in the closet than homosexuals," the cultural war is all of a piece...
...France will start flying again, albeit with an agreement to take a 50,000-franc ($8,350) pay cut and accept a percentage of the company in return. For its part, Air France scrapped a two-tier pay system and promised the pilots that this is not the slippery slope to privatization. All well and good, but the fans still trapped at home by the World Cup carrier's strike will still miss Wednesday's Brazil-Scotland opener. For the image-conscious French, there's just one word for it all: Merde...
When he sits down from that momentous announcement, Rudenstine will be on the down slope of his presidency--having completed a massive undertaking that bound his University together, shook $2.1 billion out of Harvard's alumni and friends and nearly ruined his health in the process...