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Forming a necklace across a quarter of the North American continent, the lakes are an important artery for commerce, allowing ships to ferry such products of the American heartland as grain, steel and timber to countries around the world. They also are a major sport fishery for such species as lake trout, salmon and muskellunge and an aquatic playground for vacationers. Environmentalists used to fear that some of the lakes were dead or dying, but the era of mindless dumping has finally ended, and the water's purity seems to be improving from year to year...
Carter suddenly interrupted himself and pointed across the study to a large table, a lazy susan 5 ft. in diameter. He had designed and built the table, he said proudly, of longleaf pine, virgin timber cut 150 years ago for the home of Rosalynn's great-grandfather. Woodworking has become a Carter obsession. When he wants relief from his writing, he said, he moves to his nearby woodshop, a converted garage where he spends long periods alone chiseling out bowls and building benches and chairs, all his own designs. During the summer, he recalled, he often worked for hours...
...piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...
...once familiar and novel, the chapel was built for wayfarers rather than a resident congregation. No larger than a tall barn, it stands at the bend of a wooded trail, high in the Ozark Mountains. An almost transparent structure of mostly timber and glass, it seems to be one with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...
...year. Instead, the rate dipped to 7% in July, but then began climbing again as the economy started to buckle, partly because of high interest rates. The exorbitant cost of borrowing especially plagued the automobile and construction industries, which in turn affected their suppliers, such as steel, rubber and timber firms. With orders down, layoffs of workers spread...