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...before clouds let up; bursting drainage systems shot manhole covers skyward like missiles. Whole towns were isolated. One, Guerneville, 65 miles north of San Francisco, was closed to nonresidents as the Russian River rose toward the rooftops, and 465 citizens were airlifted to higher ground. A rural community called Rio Linda, a satellite of Sacramento, was so badly betrayed by a sandy bed called Dry Creek that a survivor named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace...
...year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply documented proposition that women who control their own lives tend to have fewer children. Even so, if there is no better follow-up to Cairo than there was to the Earth Summit in Rio, don't expect the population bomb to be defused anytime soon...
...first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients: Los Angeles, Cleveland and 90 smaller areas, which will get grants, but no tax breaks. Clinton said the move was a nod to the fashionable idea that communities should decide how to spend federal money...
...Rio de Janeiro...
Some of the toughest areas to control are in the brushy landscapes near the Texas border towns of Laredo, Del Rio and McAllen, which have not been promised any additional agents or equipment. "We have not heard about this plan, and to date we have received nothing," says McAllen border agent Mario Garcia, whose area covers 280 miles of river, 19 counties and 17,000 sq. mi., are all policed by 395 agents...