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...million in its first 10 days in North American theaters. But the strategy has a sort of kamikaze logic. Since there are more big movies than early-summer weekends, most films--even the hits--will be seven-day wonders. So it has been, with few exceptions, this season. Crimson Tide gives way to Die Hard with a Vengeance is vaporized by Casper gets eaten by Congo is beaten by Batman Forever gets a poke in the eye from Pocahontas. Hey, it's a jungle out there. One weekend you're the lion king; the next, you're vulture chow...
...their discontent: Democratic opposition to a bill relaxing water-pollution regulations and, thus, helping each of the Southerners' watery districts by easing restrictions on the use of wetlands. Last Tuesday Laughlin met privately with House minority leader Richard Gephardt over the issue, but even if animosities subside, the tide of defections probably will...
...visitors who descend on the park each day are a mere trickle compared with the daily flood tide of 27,000 that park officials expect in July and August. By midsummer, they predict, hour-long waits for shuttle buses to the overlooks will be common. Fistfights will break out in parking lots as thousands of motorists compete for 2,000 slots. So many hikers will suffer from exhaustion and other heat-related problems that park rangers will be forced to practice triage, leaving the least seriously affected vacationers at the bottom of the canyon to fend for themselves. Says...
...statistics are as awesome as the canyon: the number of park visitors has more than doubled in a decade, from some 2 million in 1984 to 4.7 million last year. If the tide is not checked, the National Park Service estimates, there will be 7 million visitors by 2010. "We are under siege," says park superintendent Robert Arnberger...
...growing worse, and gave the country a failing "report card" for its efforts to curb the problem. "It's a 'D' at best, America," said Robert McAfee, president of the AMA, in an editorial in the group's journal, adding: "Despite widespreadcommunity efforts and greater awareness of violence, the tide of violent behavior does not show any signs of turning.'' So concerned are physicians that this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted almost entirely to the subject of violence. Despite an overall decline in U.S. crime, the JAMA editorial notes, incidents of violent...