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Before July 15, most residents were preoccupied with rising property taxes, gang violence and renewed efforts to ban nude dancing. Civic boosters lauded themselves for snaring two Miss U.S.A. pageants in a row. But all the factors that make Wichita a nice place to raise a family -- its manageable size, heartland values and high standards of civility -- also proved irresistible to out-of-state Operation Rescue activists. Though largely pro-choice, Wichita contains all the ingredients for staging a militant morality play on abortion. Says Steve Smith, assistant managing editor of the Wichita Eagle: "We're on the fringes...
...unravel the putsch, come to enforce its own brief attention span upon history? Recent great events -- the breakup of Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf war, the failure of the coup -- seem to be enacting themselves in shorter and shorter time frames. Three days last week undid 10 centuries of civic dormancy. It is possible that the world is dividing between blood feuders and channel changers. The blood feuders, like zealots in Ireland or the Middle East, cannot forget revenge, even over many years; the impatient channel changers of the electronic age favor fast-paced, variable and possibly shallow new realities...
Last week the three main antagonists agreed on a tentative peace plan that would establish a code of conduct for political parties and the government's security forces. The plan would also create a permanent peace council of church, business, political and civic leaders to monitor grass-roots politics. The 80-page proposal is being circulated to organizations around the country, and invitations have gone out for a formal signing ceremony in Johannesburg in mid-September...
...biology flashed into the mind of a hippie- holdout biochemist during a midnight drive in 1983. While winding through the mountains of Northern California, Kary Mullis envisioned a way of easily copying a single fragment of DNA in a chain reaction that so surprised him, he pulled his Honda Civic off the road to admire the view in his mind...
Instead, on a pleasantly cool Monday night in June, the soft-spoken 19-year- old, who grew up in the public-housing projects in Bridgeport, Conn., proudly marched into the local civic auditorium with 128 other green-and- white-robed members of the Bassick High School graduating class of 1991. He didn't sit on the podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that...