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...Taft, Calif. (pop. 5,000)! In 1995 L.A. became "the nation's capital of racial (539 crimes) and sexual orientation (338 crimes) violence"! And the recent rout of fires, riots and earthquakes should, by statistical rights, only increase. Furiously researched and slashingly argued, this book is a 30-bell alarm by L.A. obsessive Davis (City of Quartz), who contends that most of the "acts of God" that have wrought such destruction in that city are, in fact, the results of greed, myopia and Machiavellian politicking. Upholders of the status quo will take issue with Davis' provocations, but the facts...
...salad is washed in three stages of chilled, sanitized water before being spun dry and sealed in packages. The result is a safe, wholesome food that consumers can eat with confidence. There has never been a food-borne-illness outbreak traced to triple-washed, packaged salad. Don't alarm consumers unnecessarily. THOMAS J. PERNICE, Vice President Public Affairs Dole Food Co. Inc. Los Angeles...
...much greater. But not finding your soul mate on your first date is not going to kill you. Indeed, you might figure out that you can't stand a certain type of person. Better to know now, than when your biological or dating clock won't stop sounding the alarm...
...incipient tragedy, Washington, the U.N. and nongovernmental relief organizations are all pointing fingers at one another, insisting that someone else should have seen this coming and taken action. White House officials say they are furious at the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) for not sounding the alarm sooner. But hunger is a constant threat in Sudan, and the main aid supplier, Operation Lifeline Sudan, a consortium of U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations, has been in business since 1989, when 250,000 died. Sudan suffered a killer famine as recently as 1994. Everyone involved knew the country would need food...
...pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station...