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...biggest boosters are middle-class professionals seeking to give their children a sense of black pride. "My children grew up in a fairly white community, and that motivated me to teach them the value of the African-American heritage," says Vickie Butcher, 50, a lawyer in El Cajon, Calif., who celebrates with her physician husband and their five children. "We sit in a circle, and every person talks about that day's principle," she says. "The creating and sharing is real quality time...
...Geological Survey. Last year the survey reported that the Los Angeles area overlies three fault segments, any of which is capable of producing an enormous quake. Since 1857, when a monster measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale strewed destruction from the Cholame Valley in central California to the Cajon Pass near San Bernardino, Los Angeles has experienced a succession of lesser tremors. Six quakes of at least 4.5 magnitude have been registered in the past two years, and some geologists suspect those rumblings are the prelude to a cataclysm...
...quake was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nev., 250 miles to the northeast. It knocked dishes off shelves in the Victor Valley, 70 miles to the northeast, and shook the ground in El Cajon, in San Diego County to the south...
...Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Cal., Butcher lettered in football, baseball and basketball...
Last year Pamela Rae Stewart learned that her pregnancy was complicated by a misaligned placenta. Dr. Paul Zlotnik advised her to avoid street drugs, abstain from sex and take prescribed medication. When she gave birth to a brain-dead son, Zlotnik ordered tests. Authorities in El Cajon, Calif., say the results and her own statements indicate that Stewart neglected all three instructions. The infant died on New Year's Day. Now, in a unique and controversial use of state child-support law, Stewart has been charged with a misdemeanor: willfully failing to provide necessary care for her child...