Learning the Lessons of a Dying Earth: Future's Now By Bill Mckibben, \o7 Bill McKibben has written hundreds of articles for New Yorker magazine. He also has written on nature for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and other national publications. He and his wife live in the Adirondack mountains of New York. This series is excerpted from his new book, "The End of Nature" (Random House). \f7
Browning Adds Color to Pot Roast By Elaine Hanna and Jean Anderson, \o7 Anderson and Hanna are nutritionists and cookbook authors specializing in microwave cookery. and \f7
Killing of Jesuits Alters Equation in Salvador 'Tet' By Thomas Blanton and Jefferson Morley, \o7 Jefferson Morley is Washington editor of the Nation magazine. Thomas Blanton, a foreign-policy analyst, is the co-author of "The Chronology" (Warner Books), on the Iran-Contra affair\f7
Court Upheld Renter's Right to Pay in Cash By Kevin Postema, \o7 Postema is editor of Apartment Age Magazine, a publication of the Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, an apartment owners' service group\f7
In Julian, What's Theirs Is a Mine By Michele Grimm and Tom Grimm, \o7 The Grimms are Laguna Beach free-lance writers/photographers and authors of the updated "Away for a Weekend." \f7
Unwrapping the Best Gift--Travel By Judith Morgan, \o7 Morgan, author of "California" (with photographer Dewitt Jones), is a La Jolla travel writer. \f7