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Ceasar is the paid organizer for a church-based citizens group that is struggling to bring drinking water to thousands of impoverished families along the Mexican border. As such, she mobilizes working-class Hispanics who live in unregulated subdivisions called colonias that sprawl across miles of cotton fields in El...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting For Water in the Colonias | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

The entire Gulf Coast of Texas had been put on alert as Gilbert headed toward landfall. From Brownsville to Biloxi, Miss., people sought shelter from the storm, in many places clogging highways and emptying supermarket shelves. Houston, 50 miles inland, shuddered at the prospect of its glimmering skyscrapers swaying in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was No Breeze | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

There are whispers that Republicans may try to offset Bentsen's appeal by in effect dumping his hopeless senatorial opponent and surreptitiously urging voters to cast their ballots for Bush for President, Bentsen for Senator. Officially, though, the G.O.P. strategy is to ignore Bentsen and concentrate on painting Dukakis as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over The Big Three | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Geographically, the Republicans can count on winning the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rural West Texas and the Panhandle. Democrats hope to split Houston with the G.O.P. and roll up a huge margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over The Big Three | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

The new train is called a maglev, a contraction of magnetic levitation. The vehicle lacks that litany of trainlike properties because it floats in the air, supported by the force of immensely powerful magnets. Instead of rolling on rails, it actually flies, using magnets for propulsion. Unhindered by any friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Floating Trains: What a Way to Go! | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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