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As governor, Clinton frequently ignored calls by environmentalists to challenge EPA decisions in cases of toxic-waste management, water quality and wilderness protection. Jacksonville, located 12 miles north of Little Rock, is home to three Superfund sites that contain high levels of dioxin and other toxic industrial chemicals that have...
Radio is the last intimate medium. For harried commuters and lonely homebodies, it is mouth-to-ear resuscitation, a voice crying in their wilderness. In the '30s, radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper...
The Iceman was well prepared for the Alpine chill. His basic garment was an unlined fur robe made of patches of deer, chamois and ibex skin. Though badly repaired at many points, the robe had been cleverly whipstitched together with threads of sinew or plant fiber, in what appears to...
Unfortunately, it is difficult to get past the beautiful scenery and period sets to the true meaning underneath. With narration by Redford, the film opens with sepia-tone photographs of turn-of-the-century main street contrasted with the Montana wilderness. It's clear that Redford wishes Maclean's childhood...
My grandfather had been one of the strongest supporters of my adventure. Other students on the trip told me how their parents and grandparents could not understand why they would want to leave the creature comforts of home for the wilderness of Alaska. All the while I kept thinking that...