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What is the California Dream? And whatever it is, where can it be found? In the past seven years, 118,000 modern-day pathfinders have located a form of it in Moreno Valley, a new city 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 42 miles from Disneyland...
Contrary to the national trends, black college enrollment in Mississippi is declining. The state's three historically black state-run schools -- Alcorn State, Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State -- educate the majority of black residents who go on to college. In 1981 the three schools graduated 1,353 students, while the predominantly white universities graduated 584 blacks. By 1990 the number of degrees granted at black schools had dropped to 935, while predominantly white schools awarded only 610. Contends Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., a Mississippi legal aid lawyer who has shepherded the plaintiffs' case from its outset: "Our black colleges...
...psyche as well as the polity; they give a focus for a country's collective libido. Americans don't need kings to stir our souls because we have attached our deepest feelings to the myths and documents of our founding: Paul Revere's ride and George Washington at Valley Forge; the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Democracies that lack such myths can be emotionally naked. A constitutional monarch supplies the mythic dimension in a convenient package. Winston Churchill, who was both a partisan pol and an ardent monarchist, believed that if defeated Germany had had a constitutional monarch after...
...Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five years ago had been overrun by cattle and torched annually by ranchers and hunters. In California, at the Nature Conservancy's Coachella Valley Preserve, a few dozen volunteers felled thousands of salt cedar trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection...
...refreshing pragmatism. Rather than demanding that all hydroelectric dams be dynamited, river restorationists insist that power generators install fish ladders and adjust water flows to help salmon and trout reach upstream spawning grounds. Al Steuter, manager of the Nature Conservancy's 20,800- hectare (51,400-acre) Niobrara Valley Preserve in Nebraska, hopes to demonstrate how ranchers can run cattle on restored prairies without destroying them. After all, he asks, "what's the point of restoration if we have to station guards to protect the landscape...