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...prospering nations as they move to improve their diets. "The market for American farming has been and will be meat, milk and eggs, and the feeds with which to produce them." If American agriculture fails to seize this opportunity, says Avery, then in 50 years, 40 million sq. mi. of the globe's remaining wildlife habitat may be plowed up in a desperate race against hunger...
...survive. And it's almost harder for a woman to survive when her man is gunned down, sent to jail or on the lam from his responsibilities. From this sorority of the damned, writer-director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) highlights four young women in the episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds...
...forces arrayed against this threat are minuscule. There are an estimated 7,200 state and federal wildlife agents, 200 of which are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents, sprinkled over approximately 750,000 sq. mi. of parks. At Yellowstone National Park, 60 full-time rangers patrol a tract larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Says chief ranger Dan Sholly: "For every poacher we catch, there are 30 to 50 incidents that we don't even see." Adds Grosz: "Some days I figure I have Custer's odds." He has only 24 agents to juggle law enforcement with other...
While the mess was not of the magnitude of last year's Mississippi flood, which caused $12 billion in damages, Georgians had to reach all the way back to General Sherman's Civil War march to the sea to recall anything comparable. Some 10,000 sq. mi. were under water, an area the size of Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. Thirty-two people died and 40,000 were temporarily homeless. Thousands of acres of peanut, corn, soybean and other crops were destroyed, including Georgia's renowned peaches, which were almost ready for harvesting. Crop damage was expected to reach...
...Angeles, Richard Riordan has a different range of problems -- and a city that ranges over 466 sq. mi. and an even greater sprawl of bureaucracy. The former corporate lawyer has skirted, ignored and bucked the system ever since he won election in a bitterly fought campaign last June. One of his rules for cutting through red tape: "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." Last month he delivered his first budget, an ingenious $4.3 billion package that would pay for his 18% increase in spending on police, to $463 million, while erasing the $228 million deficit Riordan was handed...