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...vast majority of Americans at any one moment, the deMeurerses weren't sick and didn't expect to get sick. Alan signed at 27, Christy at 32; their two children were young and healthy. This was insurance, something for a rainy day. They selected a medical practice--the Rancho Canyon Medical Group in Temecula, California--from a roster of those in Health Net's network. "We just wanted some basic protection," Alan says. "We were all very healthy people...
...Statue of Liberty is open again, just as the Thanksgiving Week vacation surge hits its peak, and thousands of tourists are headed for the awe-inspiring sight of the Grand Canyon. By ending the budget stasis now, President Clinton and GOP leaders have avoided not only the real pain that might be suffered by the needy who are dependent on federal social programs, but the spectacle of a lot of government-run operations growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their...
...budget impasse was becoming known as the Washington fight that closed down the Grand Canyon, and Arizona Governor Fife Symington was having none of it. Friday morning, Symington ordered National Guard troops to the canyon to "render assistance" until furloughed National Park Service workers return. A few hours later, the Interior Department ordered the governor to stand down. If the Guard did it for the Grand Canyon, Interior's lawyers reasoned, they would have to do it for all 369 parks and monuments in the country. "Once that started snowballing, you couldn't control it," said Park Service spokesman David...
...UTAH "WILDERNESS" BILL IS ONE of the best examples of the Republican leadership's efforts to give away, sell off or otherwise develop America's forests, parks and wilderness. The bill could spell disaster not only for the awe-inspiring red rock canyon lands of southern Utah but for all America's remaining wild lands as well. If the Utah bill becomes law, "protection" for all these wild places might include logging trucks, oil rigs or other industrial development. Special interests are getting special treatment at a time when Congress has promised to slash government waste. And people said there...
From Utah, there's Representative Jim Hansen, compared by his detractors to James Watt, Ronald Reagan's steel-eyed Interior Secretary. Some of Hansen's proposals in Congress, like opening up lands near Bryce Canyon National Park, have gone nowhere at all. But as the new chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Lands Subcommittee, the eight-term Congressman, who has been trying for years to reduce federal lands, has thwarted environmentalists hoping to designate 5.7 million acres of Utah as wilderness. A Hansen-sponsored bill that was adopted by his committee in August would limit the new wilderness...