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In the wilderness of Alaska, Matthew J. Heid '96 encountered caribou, grizzly bears and moose, but none made untoward advances. The most unpleasant inconvenience Heid endured was having to wear heavy, warm clothing in 85 degree weather for several days.
The Sierra Club cutups are not the most impudent manipulators of bad U.S. mine law. New techniques for extracting bullion from low-grade ore have touched off a little-noticed gold rush in the West, devastating huge areas, often at high-altitude sites that almost inevitably pollute the headwaters of...
Hard-rock miners tend to think of themselves as semiheroic, crustier than cowboys, and when a site is inconvenient, they say, "You mine where the ore is." Henderson's ore is entirely surrounded by environmentalists. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is not more than a mile away on all sides. Just...
Hayden said the site is vulnerable to fires like those that have recently swept southern California. Environmentalists are hoping the site will be used as a visitor center for the wilderness lands that surround it.
For Margarito, as for many of the other characters in the stories, Europe is a new world, and they become conquistadors of a sort, discovering the people who "discovered" them. Garcia Marquez orchestrates this series of reversals with wry wit and irony. Latin American intellecutals have long remarked that for...