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Advocates for the wise use movement have come up with some pretty loopy ideas -- among them, a scientifically silly proposal to halt global warming by clear-cutting ancient forests. But one of their radical notions has been getting a friendly hearing from the courts, Congress and the Bush Administration. The idea, which could ultimately cost state and federal governments billions, is that private landowners are constitutionally entitled to compensation when a government imposes environmental restrictions on how their land may be used. Citing the clause in the Fifth Amendment that bars the government from taking private property "without just compensation...
...there is no marking time in the opposition camp, which is more organized than ever before. Scores of interest groups -- including ranchers, miners, loggers, developers and manufacturers -- have become allies in a "wise-use movement" to fight what they see as the extremism of those who put wilderness protection and the rights of endangered animals before the welfare of humans. "There seems to be a coalescing of different economic interests to fight the green devils," observes environmentalist Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution...
...feeling is that the situation is a serious one, but not dire," she says. "The perception seems to be that with...wise judgements we can overcome our budget problems...
...their education their parents have neglected. For the middle generation, seeking economic advantage, especially with a branch of the family that has immigrated to the U.S. and prospered, has preferred to deny history's impact on their lives. It is touching to watch a bond being created between wise age and innocent youth and wonderful to experience the grace of Kurosawa's art as he explores, with a new simplicity, one of his preoccupying themes: man's inability to control, or even think coherently about, the mighty historical forces he so often and carelessly unleashes...
Richard Heffner, the chairman of the ratings board, says NC-17 should not be treated as "the mark of Cain. I firmly believe that NC-17 is a rating that should be used and respected," he says. "Americans are wise enough to understand that we should discriminate between what children and adults can see, and that's all it means...