Word: woodsman
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...caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more and much less than the man of her heartland dreams. Their disastrous romantic negotiations show us not only their own hearts but the heart...
SCORCHED EARTH He made himself an easy target for environmentalists by going soft on CO2 and arsenic, but President Bush has become a savvier woodsman. Last week the President faked left and installed Clinton-era regulations preventing road building and logging on about 60 million acres of national forest. The catch: he will give local authorities the power to bend these rules on a case-by-case basis, effectively negating the rules before putting them in place. Most of the land in question is in the West, including Alaska's Tongass, which has the most pending permits for logging...