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Fallows began to stop "dividing people into demons and heroes" the summer after he graduated from college, when he was working on a project on water pollution for Ralph Nader, "The Water Lords." In Savannah, Ga., he and his co-workers met with the owners of the mill that was fouling the Savannah River, and found them to be "very pleasant, very nice people...
...soon executions might start. Both states have clemency-hear ing provisions that could keep the condemned alive at least until early next year. Georgia Governor George Busbee pledged last week to automatically grant a stay of execution to any clemency applicant until he can have his hearing. Moreover, Savannah Lawyer Bobby Hill, who has successfully fought the death penalty many times, announced that he would represent any condemned prisoner in Georgia who asks for help. Hill vowed to take each case back to the original convicting court and crank out every appeal imaginable...
...Savannah...
...spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt wrote in The Savannah Cookbook, "is rather like trying to write down the music to the spirituals which they sing -for all good oldtimers (and newtimers too) cook...
Yellow Fever. Concentrating on items published between 1872 and 1882 in Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and Jonesboro, she studies the big stories of the day, the proceedings of the state senate in Atlanta, and even advertisements for patent medicines hawked during the yellow fever epidemic of the period-a plague that will undoubtedly provide some of the melodrama for GWTW II. Plotting possible ways for Scarlett and Rhett "to get richer and richer," she leafs through the financial pages to see what was happening on the cotton and sugar exchanges...