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...Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson emerged as Big Game heroes from the Mariners' five-game series against the Yankees. But that honor could easily have gone to the Yankees' Rubin Sierra, Jim Leyritz or David Cone had game five turned out differently...
Californians are discovering the poisonous persistence of those roots. Attracted by the beauty of the Sierra Nevada foothills and easy access to such cities as Sacramento and Stockton, new arrivals have swelled the population of the Mother Lode from 400,000 in 1980 to about 700,000 today, creating new boomtowns where old ones once stood. But many residents have come to view the tens of thousands of abandoned mines as health hazards. Such concerns have halted planned housing and commercial developments and raised demands for cleanup projects that could take years to complete and cost hundreds of millions...
...organizations have been charging that the Republicans are trying to "defund the left" by challenging the tax-exempt status of organizations that both receive tax subsidies and lobby Congress. Such reform might be thought to hit conservative groups like the N.R.A. just as hard as Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, but conservative groups actually tend to rely more on private donations and are not so dependent on government funds as liberal groups...
...CARTER IS NOT SOME-one who finds aneasy place to live and stays there. During thefall of her senior year, she took a semesterabroad in Africa, starting off in Sierra Leone andmoving, because of political unrest, to Kenya.Adjusting to a new culture, especially one inwhich she says many biracial women were assumed tobe prostitutes, was challenging for Carter. Butshe grew up a lot. "I became a lot less shy and alot more independent...
Michael McCloskey, chair of international affairs for the Sierra Club, and Lynn Goldman, a spokesperson for the EPA, criticized the current proposals, saying that cost benefit analysis should not be the sole determinant of environmental policy...