National Park Service Cancels Plans for `Road to Nowhere'
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ A 64-year-old mountain feud that pitted a promise against pragmatism moved closer Friday to fading into folklore.  The National Park Service said it doesn't plan to build the ill-starred "Road to Nowhere" through Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Less than a month after highways and bridges were shut down during a bomb scare touched off by an advertising stunt, a new marketing scheme has led angry city officials to shut down a historic site.
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By Joe Baird, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--RICHFIELD -- Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. pulled back the state's  roadless forest petition last month following a federal court decision that  has thrown the Bush administration's whole petition process into question.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has canceled its planned tour of northern Europe next year because of concerns about terrorism, and the choir will instead tour the Northwest.
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By TERENCE CHEA  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday reinstated a Clinton administration ban on the building of roads in untouched sections of national forests.  U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte sided with states and environmentalists who sued to protect forest land.
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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A federal agency's decision not to renew a mining permit for a rock quarry near Las Cruces will better protect a repository of pre-dinosaur era fossil tracks.
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At a congressional hearing, the National Park Service ruled out the possibility of reopening the Statue of Liberty's crown.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Here's a dumb idea: The U.S. Department of the Interior has told its U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees in northeastern North Carolina not to respond to public inquiries about the effects of a proposed Navy practice landing field there.
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tordia writes &quot;Bruce Schneier has come out against a plan proposed by the Missouri Secretary of State, Matt Blunt. Blunt&#39;s proposal would allow &quot;soldiers at remote duty stations or in combat areas cast their
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By Tom Kenworthy  A federal judge in California on Wednesday struck down Bush administration rules for development on nearly all 58.5million acres of "roadless" National Forest land and reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road-building, logging, drilling and other activities.
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The American organizers of a cruise to mark the 200th anniversary of Haiti's independence have canceled most of its itinerary inside the country here, citing concerns about the legitimacy of the government that replaced ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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By PAUL FOY  SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday rejected a bitterly contested plan to create a nuclear waste stockpile at an American Indian reservation in Utah's west desert.  Sen.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremony in Athens on Sunday, a visit that had triggered angry protests from anti-war groups.
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The US State Department says Secretary Colin Powell has canceled a trip to Athens to attend the Olympics closing ceremony because of urgent business in Washington.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has cancelled a planned visit to Athens to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has said in a statement that the press