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Lily Lee Chen sputters when she recalls a sign at a local gas station, WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? For Chen, the placard is testimony to a conflict that threatens to split Monterey Park, a city of about 59,000 next to Los Angeles, along ethnic lines. During the past 25 years, the Asian population has grown from 5% to 40%, and the increasingly prosperous city has been tagged the Asian Beverly Hills. But changes have bred resentment. A cultural cross fire over language -- English vs. Chinese -- has erupted in Monterey Park, with...
...Monterey Park has become a vivid example of a statewide and even nationwide debate. Three other California towns have already adopted English as their official language, and in November, Californians will vote on Proposition 63, a resolution that would make English the state's official language. It directs the legislature and state officials to "take all steps necessary to insure that the role of English as the common language of the state of California is preserved and enhanced" and requires that no law be made that "diminishes or ignores the role of English." Nationally, a Washington-based group called U.S.English...
...Brian Lee Tribble, 24, a self-employed furniture upholsterer and former Maryland junior varsity basketball player, has been charged with providing Bias with the coke that killed him. "We had heard about it, and I had approached him about it," says Wharton Lee Madkins, director of Maryland's Columbia Park Recreation Center and Bias' first basketball coach. "He told me he wasn't messing with drugs, so I just took it for granted and left it alone...
...flock to wave pools. These are giant tanks the size of football fields into which water is pumped, flushed or paddled to produce breakers three to six feet high. Today there are more than 100 tanks around the country, up from 30 five years ago. Geauga Lake, an amusement park near Cleveland, has even staged exhibition surfing in its wave pool...
...together are as strong today as in the past." On the Eastern side, officials insist that the "German question" is closed forever and denounce any suggestion of reunification. But the longing is not dead among the population. A visitor to East Berlin was consulting a city map on a park bench when an elderly woman asked if she could look. "We can't get maps that show the West," she explained, "and I just wanted to see the whole thing again...