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...pack golden boy Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...
Miami. In one of the nation's key drug-smuggling cities, crack addicts are stealing any piece of metal they can to sell for scrap, from awnings to aluminum stepladders. Along State Road 112, only 2% of the lights work, because thieves have ripped off the copper wiring. At one point, Florida had 5,800 addicts begging to get into treatment programs. The number this autumn fell to under 2,000. But experts say that is because many of those who want help most have despaired of getting it and gone back to the street...
This is a place populated by castoffs from the American Dream who still manage, against stiff odds, to hold on to some small scrap of spirit and some little bit of hope. Los Lobos can find a flinty spirituality in some unlikely places, including the gaze of a damaged child in Little John of God: "You can say with your eyes/ What others only say inside." Los Lobos has weathered its own internal trial, a loss of direction that followed the group's greatest popular success, and it is by going back to The Neighborhood that the band has finally...
...farms, residents often discover that they live next door to Third World-style worker encampments. "The Americans don't want us here, and so they are always reporting us to the authorities," says Longilo Miranda, 18, a worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father in a scrap-wood lean-to. Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them...
...stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains. While the totals for each of the alliances are the same, the effect is immensely lopsided. To come down to those ceilings, NATO will have to destroy 2,900 tanks, for example, and no artillery. The Warsaw Pact, however, must scrap nearly 23,000 tanks and 26,900 artillery pieces. "Of course," said Shevardnadze with a smile, "the Soviet Union made all the concessions...