Word: apalachicola
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Amen to that. But now Georgia's politicians are fighting to protect their culture of consumption and development by suspending the Endangered Species Act, so that they won't have to send any water downstream to preserve endangered mussels in Florida's Apalachicola River. It's not a very holy attitude. Those mussels are God's creatures too--and so are the oystermen and fishermen who depend on the Apalachicola. Anyway, stiffing them won't save Atlanta. That's going to require serious water management and long-term thinking. In other words, a miracle...
SUSPENDED. RICK BRAGG, 43, Pulitzer prizewinning, Alabama-born reporter for the New York Times; after his editors discovered that he used uncredited material from a freelance reporter in a story about oystermen in Apalachicola, Fla.; reportedly for two weeks; in New York City. The move followed the resignation of another Times reporter, Jayson Blair, after the discovery of numerous mistakes and fabrications in his stories...
...often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust. Nashville has a swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late Boss Ed Crump banned auto horns. Apalachicola, Fla.? The oyster is its world. Hope, Ark.? The watermelon is its. If some places-Podunk, Peoria and Kalamazoo as well as New Jersey -take unexpected pride in being the classic butt of vaudeville jokes, others seem to get a chauvinistic glow from the fact that they resemble a distant...
...controlling interest in St. Joe Paper Co., which Ball founded and expanded until today it is practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings from gasoline refining to planning a model city for the Shah of Iran. In building the estate, Ball also made a string of profitable investments for himself. His personal wealth is about $50 million much...
...here," wrote Editor Ruder, "we don't think of Hungry Horse as a strange name. After all, we had a construction company representative and Army engineer in the office last weekend from Chattahoochee, Fla., where a dam is being built across the Apalachicola River...