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...representative days. For one 24-hour period, he taped and watched every minute of programming (more than 2,000 hours' worth) on all 93 channels in the Fairfax County, Va., cable system. On the other day, he lolled around a pond and did some hiking in the Adirondack Mountains. His conclusion: despite the unceasing torrent of news, commercials, televangelists, sitcoms and game shows, TV provides an incomplete and distorted picture of our world -- a picture that "masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided...
Anyone reading McKibben's first book, The End of Nature would have no doubts. McKibben is sentimental, especially in discussing the world of lakes and mountains that surrounds his Adirondack home...
...extravagantly elaborate, raising the question of how much more attention he can continue to pay to all the details. His most recent acme of orchestration is this fall's version of a huge home-furnishings line, divided into styles variously labeled Chairman of the Board, New England, Thoroughbred and Adirondack, among others. Lauren launched his first home-furnishing series in 1983. He had spent 18 months working with J.P. Stevens, the textile giant, to develop the initial collection of some 2,500 sizes, shapes and styles of products, ranging from stemware to blankets. When the huge assortment made its debut...
...York, whose glorious Adirondack lakes are thought to be among the prime victims of acid rain, last week became the first state to pass a law to reduce acid rain. Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill ordering industries that burn coal in the state to cut sulfur dioxide emissions 30% by 1991. The Business Council of New York State opposed the law, claiming it would raise rate payers' electric bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third...
...earthquake was apparently the result of the Adirondack region's slow physical secession from the rest of New York State, according to Joseph Steim, a research assistant in the department of Geological Sciences and a seismologist at Harvard's Oakridge observatory at Harvard, Mass. "The entire region has been undergoing a general uplift for more than a hundred million years," Steim added, explaining that "nonuniform stresses within the region results in fracturing...