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...midden study covering 11,000 years of vegetation change in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, Julio Betancourt of the U.S. Geological Survey and Thomas Van Devender of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum found evidence that could explain why a once thriving Anasazi Indian community was abandoned 800 years ago. Simply stated, the Indians eventually used all the surrounding pine trees for their dwellings and firewood, depleting the woodland and eroding the farmland vital to the tribe's survival...
...Attitude. Tyson was one athlete (there are others) with the outlaw allure of rap and heavy-metal musicians, for whom trashed hotel rooms and paternity suits are the currency of fame. Leave the gentlemanly demeanor to Julio Iglesias -- these guys are selling sexual danger. They know there are enough women who find the musk of celebrity irresistible, who are thrilled by both the opportunity and the risk in spending the night with a star...
Hard times are forcing some people to turn their back on the American Dream. In El Monte, Calif., Julio Toruno, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who prospered in Southern California after World War II, watched the revenues from his print shop nose-dive 20% last year. "I don't have the opportunities my father had," he says. Strapped by high housing costs, steep taxes and a declining income, Toruno and his wife recently bought land in Nicaragua and plan to move there in the spring...
...team amassed 32 points against B.U. with help from Lauren Rose, Chris Bell and Andy Parmet, who each scored a try, and Julio Depietro who contributed two tries to the romp. Three penalties, a drop-goal and two conversions constituted the other 16 points in the game...
Well, the abduction was apparently a retaliation for the death of a Sikh extremist and the arrest of two others in the attempted assassination of Julio Ribeiro, 62, the Indian ambassador to Romania, in Bucharest two months ago. Ribeiro, who was shot while walking with his wife in a suburb of the Romanian capital, has long been a target because of his get-tough "bullet-for-bullet" policy toward Sikh separatists during his two-year tenure as police chief of Punjab. The kidnappers' current demands, however, strike much closer to home. They are seeking the release of three Sikhs...