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Saturday January 22, 1994
PALM trees, beloved of cartoonists, photographers and property developers as instant shorthand for Los Angeles, become a more telling symbol for this troubled city when you learn two things about them. They harbour rats and they are not indigenous. The metaphor summarises the city's schizoParadise Lost - The City Of Angels Going To The Devil
Saturday January 22, 1994
The LA riots, and this week's earthquakes, are apt symbols for a city that is turning into a polluted junkyard, dysfunctional, crime- afflicted and racially ill at ease. Christopher Reed reports from Los Angeles. PALMS, beloved by cartoonists, photographers, and property developers as instant sh