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...alligators. Where once a complex ecosystem flourished, there are only cattails, acre upon acre of them, stretching as far as the eye can see. Cattails are taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand as a symbol of the decades of mismanagement that have brought the famous region...
...first free elections, he finally had one. Momentous occasions, however, can be the most difficult times in which to secure interviews, especially from two such important individuals. After much negotiation, De Klerk agreed to talk at his office in Pretoria. During the actual interview, he was outwardly relaxed, chain-smoking and joking about golf. For his part, Mandela consented to an even less formal face-to-face at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Dressed in a casual Harvard sweatshirt, Mandela graciously met TIME's interviewers in his driveway, and later took orders for tea and coffee...
...Macy & Co., exploiting the current faddishness of anything interactive, unveiled plans to create what amounts to its own private home-shopping channel, "TV Macy's," by next year. In partnership with Cablevision Systems Corp., the department-store chain hopes, rather optimistically, to reach 20 million subscribers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Another partner is Don Hewitt, the septuagenarian executive producer of 60 Minutes...
...asked him jokingly, "or to lose us?" It wasn't a bad question. In an interview with TIME afterward, Gergen said he understood that there might be resentment. "If I had worked my tail off during the campaign and some guy who had worked for Republicans came into my chain of command, I would be anxious," he admits. "And it's as big a surprise for me as it is for them. Some of them think this is a liver transplant and I'm the liver...
...descendant of the prophet Muhammad. But even though Prince Karim has long been ranked as one of the world's richest men, his financial clout suddenly seems less princely: last week a group of his banks and creditors seized the crown jewel of his business empire, the Ciga hotel chain, which runs some of Europe's most palatial lodgings...