Word: webb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tones of an anvil, gave way decisively. But color is tricky. Blood shouts, and the smallest patch of yellow adobe pounds hard on the retina. So a generation of photographers have learned to draw that very clamor into a deliberate statement. The hot pinks and fluorescent lime in Alex Webb's pictures of Haiti don't just sizzle inside the frame. They deliver the terms of a paradox: Barbaric rule can operate in the broadest daylight...
...Adam Webb...
...There's nothing simple about trying to replicate nature," says Jim Webb, regional director of the Wilderness Society, "but it has to be done." Florida's research shows that high levels of phosphates and nitrates from farm runoff have transformed more than 20,000 acres of Everglades saw grass into cattails. These intruders, which thrive in high-nutrient water, suck the oxygen from the marsh and suffocate aquatic life at the bottom of the Everglades food chain. On shallow ponds and canals, nutrient-fed algae grow so thick that they block the sun from underwater plants. So far, most...
More is at stake than the future of a habitat for alligators, wading birds and other swamp life. "This is not just an argument between greedy farmers and anxious environmentalists," says the Wilderness Society's Webb. "It's a planning issue of fundamental proportions. It's the future of South Florida." If the river of grass turns into a sea of cattails, the water supply for coastal cities from West Palm Beach to Miami could dry up, and a sunny subtropical paradise could become a barren wasteland. Floridians are coming to realize how much they too depend on the vast...
...strange tale made banner headlines and gripping TV in 1985. Filled with remorse, Cathleen Crowell Webb publicly declared that Gary Dotson was not the rapist her testimony sent to prison in 1979. In fact, she said, there was no rape; she made up the whole story out of fear that she might be pregnant by her boyfriend. The best Dotson could obtain from that admission was a commutation of the remainder of his 25-to-50-year sentence. Last week, however, his name was finally cleared as Illinois prosecutors dropped all charges against him after a state judge ordered...