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Tuesday, partly sunny, high around 70. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Tuesday night, mostly clear, lows in the 50s. Wednesday, mostly sunny and mild, high...
Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon. Introduced about 70 years ago to act as an erosion fighter and windbreak, the tamarisk tree has taken over about 81,000 hectares (200,000 acres), pushing out native trees and threatening eight species of birds that nest in them. The Grand Canyon's major animal offenders are burros; turned loose by prospectors generations ago, they have grown into vegetation- devouring herds...
...regional rivalry of the 1970s, when rising energy prices impoverished the Snow Belt and enriched the Sunbelt. With this summer's oil shock, those feelings could come flooding back. The Northeast is already in a recession, suffering from such maladies as plummeting real estate prices and rising unemployment. The Southwest, by contrast, is beginning to bask in the glow of resurgent economic health. Rising oil prices, coupled with a possible shift in wealth because of the savings and loan bailout, may only serve to aggravate the differences between North and South...
...some accounts, Texas will be the largest single beneficiary of the gigantic S&L bailout. A controversial study by Edward Hill, a professor at Cleveland State University, predicts the cleanup will pump about $80 billion into the Texas economy. A dozen other states, mostly in the Southwest, would also profit. Politicians from the Northeast and Midwest complain that their states would foot almost half the bill but see only 5% of the initial bailout money, as opposed to 72% in Texas...
...everyone cheering a plan to destroy some of them now? The U.S. Army last week began moving 100,000 artillery shells loaded with nerve-gas chemicals out of NATO storage dumps in West Germany. They are to be incinerated on Johnston Island, a U.S. atoll 825 miles southwest of Honolulu. The idea has touched off protests across the Pacific...