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Anne LaBastille dies at 77; naturalist inspired women to explore outdoors
Naturalist Anne LaBastille became something of a cult hero among modern women for embracing a distinctly frontier past.
When her marriage fell apart in the mid-1960s, she took refuge in the wilderness, building a log cabin on a hidden lake in the...Tags: Defense, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Energy Resources
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Book Review: 'An Ideal Wine' by David Darlington
Los Angeles TimesAn Ideal Wine One Generation's Pursuit of Perfection — and Profit — in California David Darlington Harper: 356 pp., $26.99 The California wine business is full of contradictions. Little wonder. On the one hand, the industry cultivates...Tags: Book, Grapes, Alcoholic Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Human Interest
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Proposed Keystone XL oil project draws a divisive line
Reporting from Atkinson, Neb.
Some might have been surprised to hear that plans to build a 1,700-mile oil pipeline through the Midwest to the Gulf Coast — a source of new oil and thousands of jobs — would drive an emotional fault line down...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Environmental Issues, Unions, U.S. Department of State, Human Interest
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Manifest Destiny, in art
In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches...Tags: Arts, John Muir, Fine Arts, Yosemite National Park, Museums
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Peter Berg dies at 73; advocate for bioregionalism
When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them.
Calling...Tags: University of Florida, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Ecosystems, Peter Berg, U.S. Army
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Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin
An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...Tags: Arts, Radio, September 11, 2001 Attacks, The Matrix (movie), Biology
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Bel-Air estate was a nature sanctuary – amid mansions
Imagine it is Labor Day 1924. You've just finished dinner on the porch, the kids are playing next door and the radio just tuned in: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today's story is about bestselling author Gene Stratton-Porter. At this very moment...Tags: Labor Day, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, Paris Hilton, Arts and Culture
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Wangari Maathai dies at 71; Kenyan environmentalist
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who made it her mission to teach her countrywomen to plant trees and became Africa's first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. She was 71.
One of Kenya's most beloved figures, Maathai died Sunday after...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Consumers, Ecosystems, Africa, Corruption
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Rick Perry talks energy, slams Herman Cain's '9-9-9' plan
Friday marked the day Rick Perry finally tried to go on offense.
First he blitzed the network morning shows, then he delivered a detailed speech on energy policy in Pittsburgh. All before lunch.
It amounted to what felt like a new chapter in the Texas...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, ABC (tv network), Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Natural Resources, Polls
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Market Watch: Country Fresh Herbs sprouts up
A relative newcomer to farmers markets, Country Fresh Herbs offers a gorgeous display of heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, specialty peppers, lemon cucumbers and Romanesco zucchini. But even more intriguing is the story of the family that brings this...Tags: Restaurants, Tomatoes, Genetic Engineering, Health and Safety at Work, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Discoveries: 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go' by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
Los Angeles TimesThe Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live, Work, and Play in the City Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber:: 175 pp., $13 paper Sheila Heti wanted to write about her friend Misha Glouberman. The Canadian performance artists had...Tags: John Hay, Elections, Russia, Garry Kasparov, Politics
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The Siren's Call: Step right up!
The novel "The Night Circus" (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved — even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does...Tags: Book, Circuses, Fiction, Ray Bradbury, Entertainment
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