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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PREPPIE MURDER (ABC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). The tabloid shows had a field day with it. Now the case of Jennifer Levin -- the New York City teenager killed during a session of "rough sex" in Central Park -- is rehashed as a TV movie...
...realize its rich potential. Today the Everglades -- what is left of it -- is surrounded by an urban sprawl of 4.5 million people. Thriving sugarcane farms carved out of its northern reaches drain pollutants into its water; Air Force jets boom over its skies. The 1.4 million-acre Everglades National Park, created in 1947, has become an endangered relic in the nation's fourth most populous state. "Make no mistake," says outgoing park superintendent Michael Finley, "the Everglades is dying...
...successful, the suit could be a landmark for national parks trying to reach outside their boundaries to protect their ecosystems. The "river of grass," as the Everglades was named by naturalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, is one of the largest wetlands systems in the world, and the most imperiled. Despite the protection of the national park, the population of wading birds has dropped from more than 2.5 million in the 1930s to 250,000. Thirteen Everglades animals are now endangered species. Only about 30 Florida panthers remain, and in recent years several have been killed on roads cutting through the area...
...since the mid-1960s, the lake overflow has been channeled through a massive flood-control project -- 1,400 miles of canals and hydraulic pumps that can drain a field or rush water to urban centers on command. Using computers, engineers now try to mimic the natural flow into the park. If water levels fluctuate even by a matter of inches, the ecology of the Everglades can change radically. The same holds true if the water is polluted...
...food chain. On shallow ponds and canals, nutrient-fed algae grow so thick that they block the sun from underwater plants. So far, most of the damage is confined to Loxahatchee National Wildlife Preserve -- an Everglades habitat abutting the farms -- and state conservation areas just north of the national park. "It's like a cancer," says park superintendent Finley, "and the cancer is moving south...