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Even so, few are rushing to catch the next plane east. In Santa Cruz, near the epicenter of the quake, county officials are awaiting the judgment of geologists as to whether homeowners should be allowed to rebuild on the fractured hillsides, where landslides may now become a perennial headache. Many residents are nonetheless eager to rebuild. True to their reputation for mellowness and impregnable cool, Californians are generally unfazed by the fault-line threat...
Eighty percent of the 1.5 million lbs. of venison sold in the U.S. comes from New Zealand, but American farmers are starting to catch up. Over the past seven years, the yearly production of farm-raised deer has increased sixfold, to 30,000 lbs. Game ranchers sell another 100,000 lbs. of wild venison. Farm venison, however, appeals to more people because it tastes milder than wild deer. "Every deer farmer sells all he has," says Raleigh Buckmaster, president-elect of the North American Deer Farmers' Association. "Restaurants are calling us all the time...
...Once unified by Moscow's tight grip, the countries of Eastern Europe are breaking free unevenly. Poland and Hungary lead the way, East Germany is groping to catch up, and Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania remain far behind. As the participants -- even Gorbachev -- improvise from one day to the next, old alliances are being strained. "Almost overnight," says Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences, "all the rivalries and tensions in the bloc that Communist orthodoxy had papered over for decades burst into the open...
...holiday may be over, but it's not to late to catch one of Harvard's spookiest Halloween treats. First-class acting, skillful direction and a healthy dose of paranoia make Ten Little Indians a sure bet both to frighten and entertain. And after seeing this production, you might even be a little more careful when you recite those childhood nursery rhymes...
FLIP on the tube at 6 p.m. and you can catch re-runs of "The Beverly Hillbillies," a sit-com about a family of "poor mountaineers" who strike it rich and move to the West Coast. In their Beverly Hills mansion, Granny prepares 'possum for dinner while daughter Ellie Mae plays with her new brassiere, which she thinks is a "double-barreled slingshot...