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Log On
Some citizens in the small logging town of Forks, Wash., are hoping to make it a high-tech haven and a model for rural communities around the world. In the past, the livelihoods of the town’s 3,460 residents revolved around logging the nearby old-growth forests, but over-cutting by logging companies and regulations like those that protect […]
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Beach Scums
The number of U.S. beach closings and advisories caused by pollution rose by 50 percent from 1997 to 1999, according to the latest annual beach quality report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Last year there were 6,160 beach closings throughout the country, more than half of them in California and most of them caused […]
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Long Island Sound-off
Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York’s Democratic Senate candidate, yesterday attacked the environmental record of her Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, and talked up her own green convictions. On a campaign tour of Long Island, Clinton touched on everything from drinking water quality to suburban sprawl, from high breast-cancer rates in the area to dying lobsters in […]
