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...Olympic National Park to make airplanes. "You're not going to invade this park until we have exhausted every other alternative," said Ickes. A month later, Ickes returned to the generals and told them Canada could supply the spruces -- but by then the generals' interest had turned from wood to metal for airplanes. Says Babbitt: "I take that story as a metaphor...
...office with windows on two sides. On the one side I can see the Washington Cathedral and on the other side, Virginia," he says. "If you look at my desk, it has piles of papers that have covered all the wood, all of which are marked urgent and all of which have to be done before I go home tonight...
...being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued by wood ear, a tree fungus used in making moo shu pork, which is supposed to be a great blood thinner...
...family of Suren Pogosian, that is unimaginable. Smoke gusts into the air as Pogosian, 68, opens the hatch of the tiny iron stove he has welded together and feeds in a few more bits of wood. His wife and teenage son, joined by some neighbors, huddle around, their eyes fixed on the bubbling pot of potatoes that will make the day's single meal. The stove provides the only heat the apartment has had for two years...
Beyond long-standing ideological divisions, there are two kinds of Democrats: those new to service and the mandarins who will be around when Clinton's attention turns to laying the cornerstone for his presidential library. "((House Speaker)) Tom Foley has put the wood to the newcomers, so I think we're all right with them," says a top Administration official. This is a reference to a meeting with House freshmen last week, when Foley saw early retirement in the new members' futures if the gridlock persists when they face re-election in 1994. "It's a lot trickier with...