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...decided this week. A $465 million restoration plan, originally hammered out in the late 1980s, has emerged from nearly five years of litigation and faces a mediator's June 21 deadline. Federal and state officials, environmentalists, Native Americans and farmers are still haggling over who will pay for the cleanup and the timetable. If no settlement comes this week, the issue is likely to go back to court -- where it could linger for years while the ecosystem deteriorates. "What's at stake is the biological future of the Everglades and the Florida Bay," says Dick Ring, superintendent of the Everglades...
...past five years, the big sugar companies and vegetable growers of central Florida have fought the cleanup plan at every turn, filing about three dozen suits, appeals and challenges. (Browner used to refer to these actions ; as the "suit du jour.") The sugar growers complained that they had been turned into scapegoats and that the water-purity standards were unrealistically strict. A series of advertisements sponsored by U.S. Sugar argued that the restoration plan would spend half a billion dollars making swamp water cleaner than Evian bottled water...
...rescue. Some of these climbers need to be held more responsible." One proposal is that, beginning in 1994 at Denali and Washington's Mount Rainier, some sort of bonding arrangement be imposed on climbers to pay the cost of their own rescue (as well as of high- altitude sanitation cleanup...
Masako was a key figure in organizing a team for softball, an activity the school disapproved of as dangerous and unfeminine. The game clearly caught her imagination in those early teenage years. She played third base and was cleanup hitter. She was a tough player: in the batter's box, she stared down the pitcher. When the ragtag group played the teachers, she liked to catch their line drives right in front of her face. Recalls an admiring classmate: "She could do things ordinary girls couldn't -- like hit fungoes...
...fondled by his geometry tutor. Others began revealing sinister memories of homosexual rape and coercive relationships. Weeks later, the Journal broke the first story on St. Lawrence. Like victims elsewhere, the St. Lawrence graduates have organized Project Samuel to share their psychic pain and to lobby for a cleanup. In April, Isely founded a therapy center specializing in clergy victims, at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc...