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Translating LA has chapters on Forest Lawn and the earthquakes, the misery of the city"s black ghettos, the unspeakable wealth of Beverly Hills. As a writer seeking to capture the spirit of place, Peter Theroux is a kinder, gentler clone of his older brother Paul (The Happy Isles of Oceania, Riding the Iron Rooster.) . For all their sparkle, the latter's travel books are suffused with a sour misanthropy : the natives are usually too noisy or too smelly or otherwise lacking in the finer human attributes...
...Prince and by soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Pentagon also announced the arrival on station of a new command ship for the 14-vessel flotilla standing ready near Haiti: the U.S.S. Mount Whitney. Crammed with communications gear and sprouting a forest of antennae, it is one of two U.S. ships designed specifically to serve as a floating headquarters for an amphibious invasion...
...past 24 hours have included some of the deadliest natural disasters in the nation's recent history. In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, wind whipped up one of dozens of forest fires now ravaging Western states, trapping 52 fire fighters and killing 13. One fire fighter was still missing this afternoon. At least 17 people have been killed by floods that continued to swamp towns in the Southeast. Rising waters in Georgia claimed all the known fatalities; divers were still searching for five people this evening. Damages there already amount to more than $60 million, and watersare expected to crest Saturday...
Surrealism was fascinated by childhood, viewing it as the primal forest of the imagination -- the place where all the id's most succulent and aggressive life-forms ran rampant, before civilization paved them over. Hence you could suppose that Dali's own childhood would be rich in suggestion about his mature work. And so it was, in a way; but not the way he meant...
...Colombians made one goal by accidentally deflecting an American pass into their own net. Yet the U.S. didn't win by default; it won by design. "The Colombians played right down the middle," says Lalas, "where we were congested. For them it was like shooting a ball through a forest -- you're always going to hit something. We'd win the ball, exploit the space and go out with fast forwards. It's like a fast break in basketball." Ernie Stewart's goal, which put the U.S. up 2-0, was the climax of fleet choreography involving seven intricate passes...