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While westerners are frequently caricatured as being either tree huggers or strip miners, they have complicated feelings about the land. Many conservationists have a libertarian streak, while ranchers and loggers can show a caretaker's attitude toward the land they work. Neither side likes being dictated to. That's why there is much lingering resentment across the West at the perceived high-handedness of the Clinton Administration--particularly the dash to bypass Congress and designate 16 national monuments in the last year of his presidency. Westerners have always resented Washington's reach--the Federal Government owns about half the land...
...otherwise--to end her reign, but if nothing else, the series Xena: Warrior Princess seemed to come to a definitive conclusion. After six seasons, the show's final episode saw Xena, played by LUCY LAWLESS, being riddled with arrows and decapitated. Her corpse was later hanged from a tree and cremated. On the plus side, she did vanquish some evil spirits. But that wasn't enough to pacify fans of the show. An angry rabble has taken to the Internet, complaining on fan sites of the violent nature of Xena's death and the fact that it seems to preclude...
...push themselves (or are pushed) too hard. Now, at 21, she is a fully mature musician with a style all her own. Says Fred Rogers, on whose TV show Hahn has appeared: "She can play a very complicated, unaccompanied piece by Bach, and then two minutes later play Tree, Tree, Tree, which is one of the most simple songs in the world. But when Hilary plays them, she makes them both sound as if she has invested her whole self in the music...
...already had part of the answer. Patient study had revealed that some orangutans were avid tool users, for example employing short sticks to shave stinging hairs from the fat-loaded fruit of the neesia tree. This was a skill that seemed taught by one generation to the next, not inherited. In other words, the orangutans had culture, previously the single greatest distinguishing mark of humanity...
...five?the orangutans that graduate are very different from their wild cousins. In the forest, orangutans spend eight years under the exclusive tutelage of their mothers, learning to distinguish among 4,000 different plants, absorbing the details of location and fruiting time of every tree in a 100-hectare range. And, yes, probably learning how to use certain types of tools, even if they haven't all solved the problem of gaining access to the fruits of the neesia tree...