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...from seeing his popular support rise because of the Clinton rescue, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is now facing widespread mistrust over his bargain with the U.S.,TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopezreports. "Everyone is asking what he gave away in exchange for it," Lopez says. "He's claimed that he has not compromised sovereignty over the issue, but there's still a level of suspicion in the general population that Uncle Sam wouldn't have done it if there wasn't more in it for him." Worse for Zedillo, whose image of weakness began with the Dec. 20 decision...
Even positive trends are seldom entirely reassuring. Smoking is down among adults, though lung-cancer deaths continue to rise rapidly among women because they began smoking in large numbers less than 50 years ago. But teenagers, with their genius for perversity, are smoking more than in recent years. Should adult society shrug and blame Joe Camel, or hit the kids over the head with market forces in the form of a $2-a-pack...
Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...
Skyscrapers built to sway with a buckling earth and low-rise buildings that sit on rubber pads that act like shock absorbers, a common feature of hospital design, have proved their worth. In Kobe it appears that few, if any, buildings constructed after 1980, when a stricter code was enacted, were destroyed. And the widespread wreckage of wooden houses in Kobe is no clue to what might happen elsewhere; wooden houses in Northridge, built to a very different pattern, stood up well...