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...80th birthday last week, Weston kept his vow. Surrounded by friends and family, he tossed hundreds of negatives into the living-room fireplace of his home in Carmel, Calif. Art historians and photography curators were horrified. The Center for Creative Photography, a photographic archive in Tucson, even sent a representative to Weston's home in an unsuccessful effort to persuade him to change his mind. Weston insisted that he was merely * limiting his legacy to work fashioned by his own hand...
...Canyon Ranch, a glossy health spa on the outskirts of Tucson that specializes in alternative techniques, a gifted physical therapist named Karma Kientzler watches a patient, Susan Pinkus, operate an exercise machine. Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer had left Pinkus with severe nerve damage in her hands and feet; she had poor balance and almost no sense of control over her extremities. Kientzler's mind-and-body system, which she calls "emotion and motion," has brought Pinkus back to near normal. A few days ago, she was able to ride a horse on a trail. "You have given me back...
...time when such halfway measures will no longer suffice is rapidly approaching. For the first time last year, Arizona started taking much of its share of river water for fast-growing Phoenix and Tucson, leaving its larger neighbor to face the possibility of a short supply. Within California, farmers have become alarmed at the possibility that the water they need for irrigation may be diverted to the cities. Says John Pierre Menvielle, a third-generation farmer in Calexico, on the southern edge of the Imperial Valley: "People in Los Angeles and the coastal plain say, 'You guys are wasting water...
...cities from Tucson to Tacoma, the term Los Angelization has become shorthand for the complex of urban problems that spring from trying to absorb huge influxes of new people. As residents of fast-growing Western cities contemplate the noxious haze descending on their skylines, the cookie-cutter subdivisions springing up on previously untrammeled hillsides and in pristine deserts, the freeway-choking traffic jams and the youth gangs dealing crack on their street corners, they fear that L.A.'s present could be their future, and the prospect throws them. When people in San Diego conjure up a Boschian vision...
...lens tend to place all responsibility on men to make sure that their partners are consenting at every point of a sexual encounter. At the extreme, sexual relations come to resemble major surgery, requiring a signed consent form. Clinical psychologist Mary P. Koss of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who is a leading scholar on the issue, puts it rather bluntly: "It's the man's penis that is doing the raping, and ultimately he's responsible for where he puts...