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Across southeast Texas, the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado rivers, swelled by nearly 9 in. of rain that pelted their headwaters last month, overflowed their banks for miles, sweeping away buildings and vehicles. With losses in the tens of millions of dollars and 15 dead, 25 counties were designated as disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Come Hell or High Water | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

No one dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks, flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the central and southeastern parts of the state. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Water, Water Everywhere | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Rehabilitating the region will not be easy, but the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and others have sued the EPA to force the state to protect fish like the delta smelt. Efforts are also under way to restore flow to the San Joaquin and Trinity rivers. Water consultant Mark Reisner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gobbling Up the Land | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Yes, yes, we've heard all the jokes: we know that "spacy" and "flaky" seem almost to have been invented for California and that in the dictionary California is a virtual synonym for "far out." Ever since gold was first found flowing in its rivers, the Shangri-La La of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Really That Wacky? | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Pop art, as Andy Warhol said, was "about liking things." Around 1960 -- actually a few years before that, if you date it from the early combine- paintings of Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns' flags and targets and, earlier in the '50s still, the work of Larry Rivers -- a number of young artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wallowing in The Mass Media Sea | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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