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...shallow, sheetlike river, about 50 miles wide, flowing almost imperceptibly from Okeechobee to the sea. It is a leisurely process, a self- perpetuating cycle in which clouds draw moisture from the slow-moving stream, blow north and then rain down on the lakes and rivers that drain into the Okeechobee and back to the Everglades...
Doesn't everyone love to find out from The New York Times that Woody Allen won't take a shower in a stall that has a drain in the middle of the floor? These days, television movies go into production before the smoke clears. Barbra Streisand and Sharon Stone roam the corridors of power. And politicians are starting to buy infomercials to sell their wares like so many cans of spray-on hair. Most people wouldn't consider these positive trends, but they're wrong. Dead wrong...
...with a $400 million deficit. Teachers have endured a 10% pay cut already this year, and threaten to strike soon. Some parents in the mostly white San Fernando Valley want to break up the school district into smaller pieces so that they will be unburdened of the financial drain of schools in L.A.'s poor neighborhoods...
...Moscow businessman. Says he: "If the Westerners keep giving us aid or credits, it's stupid. No matter what kind of government we have, communist, fascist or democratic, it's still going to be a Russian government, which means that all that aid will simply go down the drain, and nobody will ever find where it ends...
Cambridge Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, a frequent park stroller, says that the excess mud is "a drain-off issue." But Myers' solution is a little less complex than Young's: "Wear old clothes," he says...