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...that any gambling was going on at all. The Administration has belatedly been making a great show of prosecuting the most egregious offenders. Just last week the government charged high-profile Dallas thrift owner Edwin McBirney III with 17 counts of bank fraud. Cleaning up the mess at his Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas, which was taken over by regulators in 1986, has so far cost $2 billion...
Experts attribute the growing onslaught of skin cancer to the new affluence of Americans in the years after World War II. That was when they began taking vacations in the Sunbelt and the Caribbean; adopting the sun-worshiping culture, as well as the music, of the Beach Boys; and jogging endlessly in skimpy clothes. Because the effects of sunlight on the skin are cumulative and usually require years of exposure before malignancy begins, the results are just showing up now. The Harvard Medical School Health Letter has neatly summarized the situation: "The bronzed youth of the baby boom, now reaching...
...suburbanite, few experiences are more wrenching than watching a lush green lawn turn brown and scraggly. All across the increasingly arid U.S. Sunbelt, homeowners are facing that disheartening prospect. Because of persistent droughts and rapid population growth, there is not nearly enough water to keep every plot of grass green. Los Angeles, in the fourth year of a dry spell, recently imposed water rationing, and South Florida, which absorbs as many as 1,000 newcomers a day, has been needing more rain for two years...
Last week, after the most exhaustive study yet of the economic and agricultural consequences of global warming, a group of scientists announced that while some Sunbelt farming regions in the U.S. might be devastated by a 7 degrees F average increase in temperature, other regions farther north would enjoy a longer growing season, benefiting such crops as corn and soybeans...
...first of his generation to get so near the presidency. Was it all dumb luck? Garry Wills looks at the secret of his success. -- Sunbelt mud bath: Democrats in Texas, Florida and California cut each other up while G.O.P. candidates are rested, ready and rich...