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...seeking tourism-related jobs. In 1970 the year-round population was about 2,000 people; now it is close to 15,000 and growing 8% a year. The new arrivals are already straining the Galapagos' water supply and waste-disposal systems, and they are putting pressure on the social fabric as well. "The newcomers just come here to make money," complains Esperanza Ramos, who arrived with her husband and four children in 1968. Like other residents, she blames the new wave of immigrants, many of whom have not found work, for the prostitution and drugs that have taken root...
...Mayor Reeves of all the nine councillors understands and appreciates the fabric of Central Square more than the others. Without him, we could not have gotten the [revitalization] process going," Winters says...
This time, there were no riots, but the case rent the fabric of race relations in America as much as if angry people had taken to the streets. How else to explain the scenes, witnessed over and over again in bars, offices and homes across the country, of blacks yelling for joy at the verdict and whites shaking their heads? Now, when a white person passes a black person on the street, race will be more at the front of their minds; when lawyers choose juries, they will weigh white and black even more carefully. For advocates of a race...
...child, Isaac Mizrahi coveted the daisies on his mother's high-heeled mules. He stole her milk money to buy fabric. At 17, he went to Paris in a purple leather ensemble he'd stiched especially for the occasion. In 1987, this nice Jewish boy from New York started a fashion house. Now he's got his own movie...
...COVER STORY BY Robert Hughes. Nothing more clearly illustrates the incestuous relationship between the self-styled cultural elite and their claque in the popular press or better epitomizes how out of touch with normal Americans you people are. "What would Tocqueville have thought of today's assaults on the fabric of America's public culture?" you ask. Well, he would first have spent no little time scratching his head over the "culture" so described, and then he would probably agree that if this is "culture," then America is better off without it. TIOMOID M. OF ANGLE Richardson, Texas...