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...will flow into the St. Croix River, to the Mississippi, south to an aqueduct at Keokuk, Iowa, and from there west to the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon and many other southwestern canyons, filling them up to the rims--enough water to supply the parched Southwest from Los Angeles to Santa Fe for more than 50 years...
...daughter of a jazz musician, the New Jersey-born Lafferty originally sought a more placid career than her father's by attending Southwestern University School of Law, where Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark had graduated 16 years before. "I knew after a year or so that lawyering was not for me, and I dropped out," she explains. "Clark hung in." After working as an assistant press secretary for a New York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight...
Monday, Aug. 6, dawned clear, hot and humid in Hiroshima, a city on the southwestern coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu. In 1942 it had had a population of 420,000, but wartime evacuations had reduced that number this summer morning to about 280,000 civilians, 43,000 military personnel and 20,000 Korean forced laborers and volunteer workers. Hiroshima housed the headquarters of the Japanese army's Second General Headquarters...
...success depends on sheer exuberance and tenacity, he has a better than even chance. The son of a schoolteacher-turned-banker from the southwestern region of Correze, Chirac ran away from home at 17 and spent several months in the merchant marine. When he was 20, he studied at Harvard summer school, washed dishes at a Howard Johnson's in Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When...
...April 22, most of them by Rwandan army soldiers from the Tutsi ethnic group. The violence erupted when the army began dispersing the Hutu refugees-some of whom were involved in the slaughter of more than 500,000 Tutsi and some Hutu last year-from several camps in southwestern Rwanda. About 2 million Hutu remain refugees in neighboring countries...