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...Park Service announced restrictions on aircraft that it hopes will satisfy both environmentalists and backpackers as well as so-called flightseers. The plan, ordered by Congress, designates four flight-free zones, totaling 530,000 acres over which aircraft cannot fly at less than 7,000 ft. above the canyon rim. Between the restricted zones are several corridors where aircraft can ferry tourists. The plan also bans flights below the canyon rim...
Gays are not the only constituency Agnos must serve. Right under the noses of the white establishment, San Francisco has turned into a city of Pacific Rim immigrants. The Chinese community alone numbers 150,000, the Philippine 70,000. Add to those groups a spicy mixture of Japanese, Thais, Laotians, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Hmong, plus contingents from Pacific Island outposts, and the city that Columnist Herb Caen likes to call "Baghdad by the Bay" more closely resembles Hong Kong East. Says New York-born and Hong Kong- reared Leslie Tang, 32, a commercial developer: "We don't have the political...
Each week brings new evidence that the balance of power is inexorably shifting south. Merrill Lynch recently picked Los Angeles as the place to service its Pacific Rim clients interested in California investments. "My instinct was to go to San Francisco," says Hong Kong-based T.M. Deford, director of the brokerage's Asia Pacific regional office. "But our study showed that the money was going to Los Angeles." Says Agnos' predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, with a bit of resignation: "Los Angeles has 15 million people. We have six million...
Some treat his reflections on Nazism not as a walk around the rim of the deepest spiritual crater in European history, but as a modish and sinister nostalgia for Hitler. What other motives, the argument goes, can you assign to a painter who at 24 was photographed Sieg heil-ing outside the Colosseum or on the edge of the sea, as though "occupying" these sites in the name of the dead Fuhrer? Plenty, as it turned out. The shot of Kiefer saluting the Mediterranean is an acrid parody, the Nazi as Canute trying to raise himself to the level...
Still, Gielen's slow start has been very frustrating. "I don't think I've hit the rim more and not made a shot in my entire life," Gielen said...