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These desert detours may not look like much, but they pass through the brand-new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah--a 1.7 million-acre tract that many consider the most beautiful spot in the U.S. The trails that crisscross it are scars from the latest tactic in one of the region's most bitter land wars...
...Last month Interior officials flew to Utah to begin consulting with the Governor and other officials on how to protect both the monument and the local economy. Such joint planning has rarely been tried before in land-use disputes, and Babbitt has high hopes for it. "This is a brand-new model," he says. "We want to live together out there...
...courts have long struggled with the problem of expert witnesses who champion theories not accepted--and sometimes hotly contested--by the majority of scientists in their field. Breast-implant suits, for example, have produced a brand-new affliction, "atypical connective-tissue disease," that has as yet no formal medical standing. Argues Dallas attorney Bert Black, who heads the American Bar Association's section on science and technology: "One should not force companies to pay out millions of dollars and drive useful products off the market on the basis of a disease that isn't even a hypothesis yet." But University...
...ways to resolve the dispute. But Loewen, he says, turned the evening into an effort to persuade him to sell his own best funeral homes. At one point, he says, Loewen boasted how he maneuvered John Wright to sell the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home by threatening to build a brand-new home in his territory. Loewen demonstrated how Wright's hand shook so much the coffee sloshed from his cup. "To brag about being able to intimidate somebody is not evidence of a gentlemanly sensibility," O'Keefe says. "It told me he's an arrogant guy, that...
...murdered early that morning. The son shows no emotion to the officers but breaks down on the bus ride back with his father: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life...