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Rolling Hills Estates has an urban pest problem. The varmint travels in packs, digs holes in lawns, eats flower gardens, poops around pools and spas and, worst of all, starts screeching as early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...inflation ran at a rate of 100%, and almost a quarter of the labor force is now out of work. Oil and gas revenues will decline if the fundamentalists scare off Algeria's European clients. Bendjedid recently implemented financial reforms aimed at wooing foreign funds. If democracy continues to flower, investment will be forthcoming, opening up new jobs and industries. But if daily life does not improve for the country's 26 million residents, Algerians may mistake fundamentalism for a panacea and sign on to a far vaguer -- but undoubtedly more radical -- agenda...
...days Turner talks about the "Zen experience" of fly-fishing. He has stopped pacing around his home and office (Wussler once counted 74 consecutive circles). And when it is suggested that heaven for Turner might be an eternal baseball game, he protests with the tone of a late-blooming flower child: "No, no, no, that would be too much pressure. I wouldn't want to go and spend all eternity competing at the level that I have in this life...
...mounted or swivel-based TV. Bathrooms are also showplaces, filled with big-ticket items like stained-glass shower enclosures, halogen lights, fireplaces, even "morning kitchens" with under- the-counter refrigerator and microwave for heating up muffins or evening snacks. Themed decors are popular, with billowing paisley-fabric-covered windows, flower gardens with plants, wicker furniture, and Lucite etched with cloud formations. In researching an upcoming book on baths, fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg even found a bathroom with two tubs, "so that people can talk to each other while they're getting clean...
Wednesday: an evening of psychedelia and flower power! with The Olivz, Love Pollution and Sidewalk Gallery, at 8 p.m. Tickets...