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These days Whitley's stiffest challenge is finding time to himself. The 28- sq.-mi. domain over which he reigns is as demanding as any small town. There are fire and sanitation departments, a civilian population of 300 (mostly security staff and their families), a cemetery, a community , swimming pool and even a post office with its own zip code. Although Whitley, his wife and their seven-year-old daughter Susan live in grand isolation in a spacious brick house atop a hill overlooking Angola, the sense of privacy is illusory. "He can't even see Susan's swim meet...
...late 1986, Soviet officials declared the site safe for at least 30 years. Yet today the sarcophagus is cracked, crumbling and in peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure is so unsteady that a strong windstorm could smash it, sending a plume of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. "Nothing is being done to clean it up," says...
...drop-in children's center is so new a concept that no common name yet exists to describe such a facility. Its purpose, though, is perfectly clear to grateful employees: the center provides expert child care when an unexpected need arises. The 2,200-sq.-ft. center can handle up to 30 youngsters between the ages of 6 months and 12 years. Why an emergency facility instead of a full-time day-care center? "We can serve thousands of our employees, instead of just a small number," explains Karol Rose, director of Work/Family Initiatives and Training for Time Warner...
History cannot be reversed, but historic change seems to be in the making. In Canada the commitment to native self-determination followed another major step: the creation of a self-governing entity called Nunavut out of the vast Northwest Territories, effectively turning a fifth of Canada's 4 million-sq.- mi. territory over to 17,500 Inuit. In the province of Quebec, persistent agitation by 10,000 Inuit and Cree Indians against the second phase of an $11 billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, which would flood thousands more acres of Indian and Inuit lands, has placed the enterprise...
...Brazil, with 240,000 Indians in a population of 146 million, the government last year set aside 37,450 sq. mi. for 9,500 Yanomami, a fragile Amazon tribe whose way of life had been virtually destroyed by migratory gold miners. In the past 2 1/2 years, Brasilia has created 131 reserves covering 120,000 sq. mi. in 19 states that are home to 100,000 Indians. It is a beginning -- but it does not come close to ending the threat to the tribes, whose lands are frequently invaded by aggressive miners and ranchers and who receive little help from...