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Julia Scotton, an Altadena, Calif., mother, echoes many parents in hoping Jack and Jill will even increase the chances that her kids will date and then marry other blacks. When her son T.C., one of a handful of blacks at his high school, needed to find a date to take to last year's winter dance, Scotton gave him the list of Jack and Jill families with teenage girls. Of course, it remains to be seen how much effect such efforts will ultimately have on kids in a post-civil rights era. T.C. did take a black girl...
Khalid Channell, a first-year student at Stanford Medical School and a friend of Sanyika, told the Stanford Daily that Sanyika had missed classes after returning from spending winter break with his family in Altadena...
ARRESTED. RODNEY KING, 30, whose videotaped beating by police ultimately led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots; on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence; in Altadena, California. This time the police taped the arrest themselves. He was released after posting a $50,000 bond...
...immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame. By noon, they charred 4,000 acres and immolated hundreds of houses in the mountainside suburb of Altadena, sending families fleeing for their lives. Frustrated, endangered fire fighters, working with little or no water pressure, began bulldozing to fill up their tankers at swimming pools...
With infernos raging over 150 miles, from L.A.'s northern exurbs to the Mexican border, there was no typical experience. Fires threatened the bedroom communities of Simi Valley and Chatsworth; they reached deep into Altadena, only eight miles from central L.A., and scorched the northern San Diego countryside. But their most surreal and spectacular foray was into Laguna Beach. A pristine, smog-free enclave bordered by cliffs and water, the 24,800- resident paradise for surfers, artists and environmentalists, is, along with the adjacent community of Emerald Bay, home to some of the richer people on the Pacific...