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...different approach would surely have helped Boise Cascade in its most painful environmental battle. Bulldozers had hardly begun carving the roads for a resort community-called Incline Village-on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe before conservationists denounced the company for contaminating the lake with silt and creating ugly scars in the alpine forest. As the company went through a maze of government agencies to win permission to build 3,000 homes, it met furious opposition at every point; so far, the company has been able to build only ten homes and four condominiums. Though other developers were almost entirely...
...operators who created most of today's mess. So long as U.S. population and incomes keep rising, more people will be seeking a home away from home, and the demand for leisure-time projects can only increase. Not long ago, the Daily Union Democrat in the sleepy Sierra Nevada foothill town of Sonora, Calif., extended a note of sympathy: "Whenever there's an ecological lynching party, Boise Cascade comes out on the loop end of the rope...
...difficult making the adjustment," Bernhard said. "Hell, they even had me playing third base in high school. I was the only left-handed third baseman in Nevada. The first time they bunted to me. I threw the damn thing into left field...
Western High School, which Bernhard attended, used to have a monopoly on Nevada sports, winning five state championships in his senior year. "There were only nine other high schools in the entire state, so the record isn't as impressive as it seems," he said. "Still, we used to travel 500 miles to play a baseball game...
...Kerouac, but you must read the rest of his introduction. The pictures are pure existential moments, complex images, not pretty, but reflecting something in each case which shouts with mysterious intensity, in another language altogether, "There are no words!" In one of his pictures, a woman in an Elko, Nevada, casino reaches for the dice so intently her arm becomes, with slight blur, a serpent's tongue. Frank understood best the absolute respect the still image must have for reality, and the duty the photographer has to confront people in the reality of their daily lives...