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Any reader looking for the source of Naipaul's inspiration will be rewarded here, finding in several essays early drafts of episodes that became part of his Indian travel narrative, An Area of Darkness. Many of the details and themes in a long and truly frightening piece, "Michael X and...
For over 30 years, I've been a lone voice in the wilderness. I am grateful that the National Institutes of Health is now examining controlled-carbohydrate and low-fat nutrition. These studies may end up showing that excessive carbohydrates are the true culprits, not fat. At what point am...
INDIGENOUS CONTROL The trend of recognizing indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral land sometimes can help preserve wilderness. In the republic of Yakutia in Russian Siberia, some 270,000 sq. mi. of arctic tundra are now off limits to all extractive industries except for the traditional hunting and fishing done by...
A survey by Conservation International found 37 wilderness areas left that have at least 70% of their original vegetation intact, are at least 10,000 sq km in size and have a human population of no more than 5 people per sq km. These "last wild places," as the group...
This touchy-feely stuff comes in part from Bonderman, who taught law at Tulane University in New Orleans in the 1960s but reportedly fell out of favor because of his "hippie" clothing and outspoken liberal viewpoints. He is an ardent conservationist, working with the Grand Canyon Trust and the Wilderness...