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Until last year, Kei Murrell, 13, like most other girls at Mendocino (Calif.) Middle School, considered the school's computer room to be a male preserve, a place where boys talked in programming jargon and played war games. While Kei and her friends were free to use the machines, they stayed away -- largely because, as she says, "there aren't very many girls my age who are into blowing things up on a computer." Kei is still bored by computer shoot-'em- ups, but she and the other girls now feel right at home at the computers. Perched in front...
...friends first ventured into the computer room when the introductory computer course became mandatory at Mendocino. They soon learned that in addition to zapping alien invaders, the machines could be used for composing music, creating posters and preparing letter-perfect homework. They were also prodded and then inspired by Kathi Griffen, their computer teacher, who made a special effort to encourage them. Says Griffen: "I'm trying to open the doors for girls so they can enjoy computers...
Rique and Natasha Kuru had no idea when they purchased their 208-acre ranch in Northern California's Mendocino County last year that they were picking a choice parcel for the Federal Government. But the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught them tending an estimated $52,000 worth of homegrown marijuana last October were armed with more than a search warrant. Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which authorizes lawmen to confiscate property used to commit crime, the Kurus faced not only prison but loss of their land...
...toll among microbrewers has been high. Four went out of business in the past 18 months. Nevertheless, some eight new microbreweries are scheduled to start operating this year and next. Among them will be Mendocino Brewing, which is to open next month in the town of Hopland (pop. 817), in the heart of the California wine country. The firm will also have a beer garden and restaurant. A brewery next to a winery is the California version of the butcher living next to the baker...
...last year's report, Eriksen matter-of-factly stated that pot patches provided far more farm income in Mendocino County-he estimated 1979's harvest at $90 million-than any other cultivated crop. Says Eriksen: "I thought it was a realistic thing to do." The county board of supervisors did not: when the smoke cleared, Eriksen had torn the offending page from every copy of his findings and promised never to report on m--a again. So this year, wine grapes will be called the county's biggest agricultural moneymaker. But that is a politician...