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...building that trust between coaches and players, creating loyalties that have reached beyond a game and into the fabric of a region's culture, is a simple matter of taking care not to act like the biggest animal in the forest. "There's just three things I ever say," sums up Bear Bryant, when he is pushed to explain his philosophy of coaching. "If anything goes bad, then I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people...
...screening applicants on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey. The screening process is anything but tranquil as scientists from some 60 universities badger authorities for permission to enter the normally forbidden "red zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain, using bureaucratic red tape to keep out competing researchers. One regulation: each investigating team must have a radio operator, a function that is being performed by local hams. But now there are not enough to go around, and scientists must...
...field in Illinois was empty; a week or so later, it contained 20,000 bbl. of dumped wastes. Kentucky state police staked out a site just outside Daniel Boone National Forest, where some 200 containers loaded with dangerous solvents had been discarded. They arrested three Ohio truck drivers. Hundreds of toxic drums were found on three sites near historic Plymouth, Mass. State troopers and other authorities set up roadblocks to stop illegal dumping operations in New Hampshire, which, like the other New England states, has no legal disposal site. Declared New Hampshire acting Attorney General Gregory Smith: "We know toxic...
These days, American veterans who want to relive the horrid past make pilgrimages to Bataan or plan fraternal parties in Hürtgen Forest. But when it comes to war stories and patriotic gore, World War II trails well behind memories of another war, as John Toland amply proves in this plodding yet passionately detailed resurrection...
...Coming Into the Country, an Alaskan saga, are his two finest books. In Giving Good Weight, midway through an account of a canoe trip on which he was accompanied by boatloads of wealthy Harvardians, McPhee shows his understanding of his own mood and of the power of the forest: "Physical labor as a bringer of sleep doesn't seem to do much for me. But the woods do, where thoughts of weather, of food, and of the day's journey so dominate the mind that everything else subsides. The rise and fall of temperature and of wind, the beginning...