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...KNOW YOU'RE IN STRANGE terrain when the arrival of Elvis Presley's ghost lends a feeling of coherence to the surroundings. Death has been flattering to the King, slimming him once more to a narrow-hipped hayseed, given to bold, abrupt gyrations and soft-voiced exclamations of wonder...
...Montana. Last year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land...
Envious rivals railed at "Leakey's luck" in finding hominid fossils--yet of course it was not luck at all but rather a combination of energy, optimism, persistence, a superb field team--known among scientists as the "Hominid Gang"--and an intimate knowledge of his native terrain. He and Mary made many significant finds, notably the fossil of the species they named Homo habilis (handy man), the earliest known tool user. Since the death of Louis in 1972, his unwavering position that Africa was the cradle of humanity has been rewarded with universal acceptance...
Cantwell describes life in the hub of the city, Greenwich Village, and her own transformation into a "Villager". After years in the city, two children bring a need for more space, and perhaps a departure from Cantwell's loved terrain, "but giving up Greenwich village would have meant giving up not only its sweet, seedy, streets but a certain self-image. B. and I were villagers; we bore a noble heritage...
...first glance the park seems spacious enough to accommodate all comers. It covers more than 1.2 million acres and the most dramatic 56-mile stretch of the 277-mile-long Grand Canyon. But the broad vistas are deceptive. The rugged terrain funnels visitors along narrow strips of trails and roads alongside both rims and into facilities that have been overcrowded for years...