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CARSON NATIONAL FOREST, New Mexico: The second major New Mexico wildfire in as many weeks has forced more than 2000 people to flee their homes in northern part of the state, as a fast-moving blaze destroyed several buildings and threatened hundreds more. The fire has consumed 7,000 acres, mostly national forest, and has reportedly come within ten miles of vacation towns Red River, Taos and Eagle Nest. In La Lama, about 23 buildings, including ten belonging to the Lama Foundation spiritual community, have been destroyed. The fire began Sunday as a small trash fire. TIME's Nancy Harbert...
...little chilly and then it started to rain," said Betsy A. Herbin '99. "Obviously the audience was compelled, because they didn't flee at the first drops...
...referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals that the defense team offered to have Simpson take a lie detector test at the outset, knowing full well that the prosecution would never agree...
...flood of homeowners and businesses leaves behind a shell of the previous neighborhood. Property values decline, and schools lose the tax revenue needed to provide even the most basic education. After whites flee, they thwart all attempts to re-integrate neighborhoods through scattered-site housing or school choice proposals...
...America we hymn a gospel of progress, and the great premise, and promise, of the country is its continual forward motion. One reason so many people migrate to the New World is to escape the hidebound traditions and confining circles of the Old, to flee changeless cycles for a world of never-ending blue. America revels in a child's sense that the future is illimitable, and tomorrow need not bring with it any taint of yesterday...