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Which brings us to greater Atlanta, 1999. Once a wilderness, it's now a 13-county eruption, one that has been called the fastest-spreading human settlement in history. Already more than 110 miles across, up from just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal...
...like this," says Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, a "smart growth" Democrat who was elected last year. Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...
Large numbers of Hispanic passengers are nothing unusual on flights at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Ariz. But there was something not quite right about the group of more than 100 Hispanics boarding Delta's Flight 1800, a red-eye to Atlanta, on Tuesday, Feb. 16. When the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was brought in to investigate, sure enough, 102 of the 186 passengers were illegal aliens. Two days later, the INS checked another Phoenix flight, American Trans Air Flight 751 to Chicago. Of the 171 passengers aboard, 60 were illegals. Another ATA flight later that day turned...
Boston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Toronto at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m. Seattle at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Vancouver at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Orlando at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Sac. at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Minnesota at G. State...
Philadelphia 85, Charlotte 70 Indiana 93, New jersey 82 Washington 97, Detroit 87 Miami 88, Atlanta 78 Milwaukee 101, Seattle 97 San Antonio 81, Orlando 79 Cleveland 86, Phoenix 73 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers...