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Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm. Looking out a window from her home in suburban Sunnyvale, Neta Lott remarked to her husband Byron that the Indian-summer evening of Oct. 17 seemed like "darned good earthquake weather." Moments later, the shaking and rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would...
...these benefits, free-market water stirs enmity in rural communities. La Paz County in western Arizona has watched with alarm since 1985 as nearly half its privately held land has been sold, mostly by farmers, to water- ranching interests. County Manager Neta Bowen decries the loss of tax base and employment: "When farmlands are retired in a community that depends solely on agriculture, what happens to the corner grocery? The cafe? The gas station? The local...
...This kind of thing doesn't have to be limited to the realm of experts," said Neta Crawford, a member of the BDG and also coordinator of the Student Network for Nuclear Disarmament, a nationwide group centered at Brown that includes over 40 other schools...
...candidates were Willie S. Brow Jr., California state assemblyman; Angela Davis, the radical scholar awaiting trial on murder charges; Ailees Hernandez, a former member of the U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission; the Rev. Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Augustinho Neta and Amilear Gabral, leaders of liberation movements in Angola and Portuguese Guinea, respectively...