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...those benefiting from the status quo and those falling further behind: almost 48% of Mexicans continue to live in poverty. The election was also a referendum on NAFTA, which has strengthened Calderón's political base in the north. But in the south, NAFTA is the source of a steep decline in jobs partly because of a surge in U.S.-taxpayer-subsidized agricultural sales--without a commensurate jump in manufacturing employment...
...Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...upstate New York and went to school in Lockport, where there was a sizable black contingent of students. They lived-it sounds so awful-in a place called Lower Town. The white people tended to live in Uptown. Quite literally, there was a long hill, a really steep hill. Those kids to me, they were just very fascinating. Very vivid personalities, very strong definite personalities. They were obviously living in a segregated city, and yet I didn't know that. Children don't really know those things...
...eliminate virtually all government regulation." Environmentalists say that if it passes, California's coastal commission, unable to compensate everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to protect it from ugly McMansions and ensure public beach access. And developers could build homes on dangerously steep slopes or plop factories into residential neighborhoods. More imaginatively, the nonpartisan California Budget Project argues that because Prop 90 applies to consumer-protection laws, if the state restricted ATM fees, it would have to compensate banks for the revenue they would lose because of the capped charges...
Many of the claims are "hysterical gibberish," maintains Prop 90 spokesman Kevin Spillane, noting that compensation would be required only for "substantial" damage to property values. The initiative exempts health and safety regulations, he points out, and current zoning laws would still apply, protecting beaches and steep slopes, for instance. As for future laws, he argues, "if you own a piece of property that's zoned one way, then it is unfair for the government to change the rules." While California's initiative affects only future government actions, Washington's Initiative 933 allows landowners to file retroactive claims for changes...