The bill regulating strip mining that vas recently passed by the House of Representatives is no deathblow to coal as loose industry representatives say it is. But, the bill did effectively dampen the notion of stripping Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota as a fast and
From the road that runs over nearby hills one can look out over Kenya’s Lake Nakuru and see a ribbon of pink fringing virtually the entire shoreline. The “pink” is all you can see from that distance of the hundreds of thousands — sometimes over
Johannesburg, South Africa In 1952 Helen Suzman seemed a poor bet to become South Africa’s most vilified and yet most internationally admired politician. She was young and pretty, rich and social, and the golf-playing wife of a Johannesburg doctor. Helen Suzman, South Africa’s lone anti-apartheid
Perhaps the best known and most enduring single feature of East Africa is the massive, snow crested mound of Kilimanjaro, rising through the clouds to over 19,000 feet. In the foreground of many thousands of tourists’ photographs of the mountain, however, is one of the
The Omo Valley, Ethiopia Out here in a remote corner of Ethiopia, under the burning African sun, they are learning what the world was like when man was born. Near the banks of the ancient Omo River, unlike any other place in the world,
