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Known as the Magic Kingdom, Oman (estimated pop. 2 million) is a land of exceptional beauty and diversity. A 1,000-mile coastline arcs southward from the limestone cliffs of Musandam to the powdery beaches of Salalah, a major trading town in the monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes...
...urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond any mayor's wildest expectations of private-public partnership...
...Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that she shuns partisan duties to concentrate on her "populist" appeal that one of them describes as "a mile wide and an inch deep...
When word came last week that six enemy helicopters were approaching the city, Pasadena police scrambled one of their own choppers to warn the intruders away. Though no shots were fired and the opposing whirlybirds never came closer than a half-mile from each other, the aerial confrontation underscored a tense standoff between state and local officials in Southern California over efforts to control an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies...
...Trump story may be the Three Mile Island of journalism: a meltdown waiting to happen. We've all known for years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...