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...Southern California's Orange County, which happens to be some of the most expensive real estate on earth. Last July, when the state fish and game commission announced that it would consider listing the gnatcatcher as an endangered species, developers bulldozed hundreds of acres of the birds' remaining habitat so that the land would be exempt from any future protection. In September the fish and game commission, bowing to construction-industry arguments that protecting the gnatcatcher would cost the state $20 billion and 200,000 jobs, decided not to list the bird. Environmentalists hope the Federal Government...
...next week on cable. Producer Nicolas Kent got extraordinary access to a host of Hollywood bigwigs, from stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger to studio executives & and other behind-the-scenes brokers. The resulting six-part series has been described by Kent as "a study of a tribe in its native habitat...
...That habitat can be hostile. Hollywood has been buzzing for months over the caustic portrait that emerges in the British documentary, and some of the participants are kicking themselves for having cooperated. Two of them -- producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- were apparently so miffed that they succeeded in preventing the episode that features them from being aired...
...meat or leather. Sex, for example. Sex was considered a valid source of thrills even if both parties were alive and remained so throughout the act. Therapists urged us to "get in touch with our bodies"; feminists celebrated "our bodies, ourselves." Minimally, the body was a cuddly personal habitat that could be shared with special loved ones. Maximally, it was a powerhouse offering multiple orgasms and glowing mind-body epiphanies. Skin was something to massage or gently stroke...
...places like these the problems are so basic they seem anachronistic: plumbing, paving and food. Jonestown's energetic Mayor Bobbi Walker is scrounging for $3,000 in private money so the Habitat people will come in and help replace 30 dilapidated shacks. Cotton planting and ginning take only about six months of each year, and there is no other work for the Jonestown families. Yet Mayor Walker and her small cluster plod on. A sewer system will be completed in a few weeks. Running water is now in most homes. She's working to get hot water to every family...