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...argument over roadless lands is thus framed in vastly different perspectives of time. Opponents--off-road-vehicle enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, loggers, miners and organized labor (which cites the loss of jobs)--do not speculate centuries in advance. They want use of the land now. In the American Southeast, debate focuses on more than 5 million acres of national forests--625,000 acres designated as roadless--that harbor some of the last vestiges of America's primeval woodlands, including some of the oldest forests in the world...
...This is New York, of course, where just about everything is bigger, louder and faster (at least in the state's southeast corner). The Empire State's U.S. Senate races have always commanded more fanfare and more money than in almost any other. And this year, that age-old trend has been ratcheted up to the nth degree. It's not just the enormity of the contributions; it's the scale of the whole race: As if a statewide campaign is being fought on a national canvas and no one seems to think it's the slightest bit strange...
...have forged national institutions together," he told the legislators. "All your greatest achievements have come when you have worked together." Its boundaries, drawn by European colonial rulers, encircle some 260 tribes, many of which have been waging war with each other for generations. When the Igbo tribe in the southeast sought independence in 1967 as the state of Biafra, the resulting war, the most deadly in the history of independent West Africa, killed 1 million people...
...Congress must approve the sale. Human-rights groups plus Greek and Armenian lobbies are mobilizing against it. Turkey has a human-rights record that remains "among the worst in the world," says Representative JOHN PORTER, an Illinois Republican, and has used U.S. weapons to attack Kurds in the southeast. To help the deal along, the Turkish embassy in Washington has hired top Capitol Hill lobbyists, at a hefty $1.8 million and Textron Inc., Bell's parent company, has put $117,800 into G.O.P. and Democratic coffers for this year's races...
Prejudices like this are a fact of life. The trick is overcoming them and not avoiding a gem of a neighborhood like Eastern Market because you fear what you do not know. Living in Southeast for a summer has shown me the benefits to be gained from living in a new and different community. I hope others can find ways to overcome their fears...