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...many reservations. "Indians are the most regulated people in the world," says Dale Riesling, chairman of the 2,000-member Hoopa Valley tribe in Northern California. "Self- determination means that we are completely free to set our own direction and goals, basically our own destiny." That destiny is in dire need of reshaping: life expectancy in some tribes is 45 years, the leading cause of death is alcoholism, and Indians have the lowest per capita income of any ethnic group in the U.S. A weak school system has made it nearly impossible for Native Americans to succeed in competitive jobs...
Many tribes are trapped between ancient environmental principles and modern economic pressures. One Alaskan tribe in dire need of funds is reluctantly trying to decide whether to sign away logging rights around Prince William Sound, permit oil drilling in a delicate wildlife area or allow an airfield to be built in the midst of a vast habitat for Kodiak bears. Other tribes have allowed waste-management companies to use reservation land for dumps and disposal sites, then suffered from the contamination of their land and water as a result. Across the vast Arizona tracts of the Navajo Nation, high-voltage...
After speaking to medical sources and learning about the dire effects of missing sleep, correspondent James Willwerth began going to bed an hour earlier. "Now," he reports, "I'm happy to greet the day for the first time in my life." His campaign to prevent midday yawns is less successful. He tried stretching out in his office at TIME's Los Angeles bureau one afternoon. Colleagues kept bursting in the door, he grumbles, "unaware that a scientific experiment was in progress...
...beneficiaries, the arrival of Christmas in April was a gift beyond measure. Janie and Lyde Hawkins have been married since 1925; theirs was a dismal home, in dire need of a new roof, porch and windows. "We ain't got to pay for it?" Janie asked coordinator Trish Lunn every time she came...
...unemployment climbs, inflation rises and the economy lurches toward an expected slump, economists issue dire warnings about "recessionary psychology" -- a pattern of cuts in consumer spending and investment that tends to feed the downward spiral and make any economic falloff even deeper. But there is another, more profound kind of recessionary psychology. It is measured by psychic indicators rather than economic ones. As people change their behavior in the face of layoffs, cutbacks or a sudden drop in net worth, more and more Americans find themselves clinically depressed...