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...television producer. It is her story we follow, her struggle to escape a family whose traditionalism borders on the inane--where Sh'chur, a North African word for white magic, is practiced at every available opportunity. With a sister who is mentally ill (Ronit Alkabetz), and a domineering mother (Gila Almagor), we see Rachel confront a variety of obstacles. We finally watch her triumph, as she receives high scores on entrance exams, enabling her to leave her family behind as she is admitted to a prestigous preparatory school in Jerusalem. But, what we witness on the road to her freedom...
...rebelliousness has created a breeding ground for violence, especially in the austere rural settlements that bracket the Continental Divide. Pipe bombs have been found in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. An unknown assailant fired shots at a Forest Service biologist in California. Federal agents recently arrested a man after he tried to buy explosives that he allegedly planned to use in blowing up an irs office in Austin, Texas. And in Carson City, Nevada, last August, a bomb destroyed the family van of a forest ranger while it was parked in his driveway. The explosion was the second this...
...high Sonoran desert north of Tucson, amid blooming cacti, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, a remarkable building is taking shape. Covering 1.3 hectares (3.15 acres) and sheltered under a gleaming, 26-meter- high (85-ft.) cathedral-like latticework roof of steel tubing and glass, Biosphere II is both an architectural wonder and a scientific tour de force. In December eight people will be sealed inside for two years, getting nothing from the outside but information, electricity and sunshine. Along with 3,800 plants and dozens of species of invertebrates, mammals and other living organisms, they will form the largest self-sustaining...
...infernal place of Gila monsters, scorching earth, mesquite and giant cactus. For centuries, the section of southern Arizona now designated as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by California gold. They come now, still seeking the golden dream, from Mexico and Central America, an illegal but relentless stream. Last week the desert-beautiful to those who know it, deadly to the unprepared-claimed 13 more victims...
Indeed, to outraged Arizonans, Carter's cutback seemed like a death sentence-and it could not have come at a worse time. Because of the drought, Gila Valley farmers-who would have benefited from CAP-are receiving only 10% to 20% of their usual water supply, and have had to reduce production drastically. The long-range outlook is even more alarming to officials. Ground water, which furnishes 40% of the state's needs, is being pumped out at a rate five times faster than it is being restored...