Environment Georgia

Trapped below the surface, she waits, and waits, while a roaring river and a raging controversy swirl above her head. Six weeks have passed since 16-year-old Rachel Trois and her boyfriend stepped into the Chattooga River, two adventurous teens on a hike through the Blue Ridge Mountains, trying to hopscotch across the same rocks and hurtling rapids featured in the film "Deliverance." Suddenly, Rachel slipped.

Trapped below the surface, she waits, and waits, while a roaring river and a raging controversy swirl above her head. Six weeks have passed since 16-year-old Rachel Trois and her boyfriend stepped into the Chattooga River, two adventurous teens on a hike through the Blue Ridge Mountains, trying to hopscotch across the same rocks and hurtling rapids featured in the film "Deliverance." Suddenly, Rachel slipped.

Coming to the alligator-infested swamp inhabited by the cartoon possum, Pogo, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said he has met the enemy and it is DuPont. Babbitt flew over the site of a proposed DuPont strip mine, disembarking at a helicopter landing pad and declared the plan "not compatible" with the neighboring ecosystem.

Coming to the alligator-infested swamp inhabited by the cartoon possum, Pogo, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said he has met the enemy and it is DuPont. Babbitt flew over the site of a proposed DuPont strip mine, disembarking at a helicopter landing pad and declared the plan "not compatible" with the neighboring ecosystem.

Adding a new chapter to the debate over California's supposedly too-tough-for-business regulatory environment, Georgia-based Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. not only formally opened a new aircraft paint plant in Long Beach on Tuesday, but its executives were boasting about the regulatory hoops they had to jump through to make it happen.

As bitter as it got, it must seem like a mere playground spat--the infighting and turmoil that beset the left-leaning Pacifica radio network and its Los Angeles outlet over the past several years. The station's new general manager is used to dealing with more than pickets, angry phone calls and spam.