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...quoted in a Seattle newspaper as supporting sheep grazing in forest reserves in 1897. The commercialization of undeveloped lands was the main sticking point—Pinchot believed that sustainable development was possible, but Muir rejected the idea out of hand. Nevertheless, both men continued to oppose the wanton exploitation of natural resources, including strip mining and clear-cutting of forests. Though Pinchot and his supporters won the debate and left an imprint on American environmental policy that has lasted decades, the pendulum has lately swung too far—under President Bush, the Interior Department, which controls a full...
...rising excitement of drunks. The teachers revel when they are away from the school. Some have the pink lids and bad breaths and puffy bodies of those who habitually drink too much. Some get divorces; some live with others unmarried. Their lives away from the school are disorderly and wanton and self-indulgent. They are paid to instill virtue and democratic values by the state government down in Trenton, and that Satanic government farther down, in Washington, but the values they believe in are Godless: biology and chemistry and physics. On the facts and formulas of these their false voices...
...oath of loyalty to Bin Laden, he is believed previously to have had something of a competitive relationship with the al-Qaeda leadership. And the public statements attributed to Zarqawi and those of Ayman al-Zawahiri have been noticeably at odds over questions of beheading kidnap victims and of wanton violence against Shiite Muslims. Zarqawi may have embraced the Qaeda brand with Bin Laden as its figurehead, but his essentially autonomous field operation in Iraq has become the movement's center of gravity...
...difficult to define as he is to catch. In New York City, for example, police make arrests in only 2% to 3% of all reported cases. The vandal's deeds, as British Sociologist Stanley Cohen of England's University of Durham has observed, are commonly described as wanton, pointless, aimless, senseless, meaningless or mindless. Cohen is one of several social scientists who think that none of these objectives really apply...
...Moreover, Cohen argues, "wanton" destruction may be but a distorted image of a larger picture. "The values associated with juvenile vandalism and thought to be peculiar to delinquents, such as the search for excitement and kicks, the high regard for toughness and aggression, might reflect values running through the whole society...