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...California's Sierra Nevada, skiers haven't seen anything like it in 10 years: 20 ft. of snow already this season, compared with 6 ft. by this time last year. In perennially sunstroked Los Angeles and San Diego, repeated torrents have flooded streets. Rainfall in California is 126% above average and rising, and the snowpack's water content is 170% above normal. With the wettest months still to come, some reservoirs, such as Little Rock in Antelope Valley, right, that were low just months ago are now overflowing. Still, % meteorologists refuse to concede that the six-year drought is over...
Those who oppose changes in the laws point out that many domestic disputes are much more complicated than the clemency movement would suggest. "We've got to stop perpetuating the myth that men are all vicious and that women are all Snow White," says Sonny Burmeister, a divorced father of three children who, as president of the Georgia Council for Children's Rights in Marietta, lobbies for equal treatment of men involved in custody battles. He recently sheltered a husband whose wife had pulled a gun on him. When police were called, their response was "So?" Says Burmeister: "We perpetuate...
...nonfiction works, such as The Snow Leopard, physical and metaphysical worlds often conspire melodiously. His novels, however, can seem like mountain climbs -- effortful, punishing, dauntingly ambitious mountain climbs that demand as much of the reader as of the author. Often their virtuosity almost obscures their virtues. "Peter always takes the difficult way out," says one editor. Matthiessen all but acknowledges this when he says, "I am really not in the least bit conscious of the reader. Maybe that's braggadocio, or flamboyance, but I really don't think that way. I think you're doing your best work when...
...ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...
...return. Reiterating that they would not take the exiles back, the Israelis suggested that the men be resettled in a third country, perhaps in Europe or the Arab world. A number of deportees said they would stick it out in their camp until they were allowed home. But the snow was piling up. (See related story on page...