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BORN: Dec. 10, 1956, Chicago EDUCATION: Northwestern U, B.A., 1979; Pepperdine U, J.D., 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Patricia Mell RELIGION: Eastern Orthodox MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Illinois House, 1992 ADDRESS: 3657 North Kedzie, Chicago...
...train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...Branch Davidians to resolve itself. They interviewed federal agents, local residents and family members in an often frustrating attempt to sense what was going on within the compound and what the FBI intended to do. Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally Donnelly and stringer Carlton Stowers stared at the hot ruins of David Koresh's compound and tried, like the rest...
...pell-mell expansion of cities creates risks not just for their residents but for every human being. As cities grow, so does the demand for standardized, easily transportable foods. Farmers in the countryside respond to this demand by planting a narrower range of crops, which in turn increases the likelihood of major disruptions of the food supply by pests and droughts. Particularly in the developing world, cities act as destructive parasites on the surrounding countryside. Urban thirst for fuel wood and building materials leads to deforestation, which can destroy an area's watershed and thus cause flooding and soil erosion...
...Tech 1355 6-2 11. Las Posit. 1353 6-4 12. HARVARD 1351 5-1 13. Miami 1310 4-0 14. Virginia 1249 12-2 15. Humboldt 1247 2-3 16. Georgia 1232 4-2 17. UC-Berk. 1195 2-8 18. E. Carol. 1170 4-2 19. Carn-Mell. 1145 6-2 20. UC-Davis...