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Though career counselors and wishful thinkers may say otherwise, women who put off trying to have children until their mid-thirties or later worsen their chances of becoming pregnant--and risk losing [...]

Having completed her morning chores, having fed dogs, chickens, iguana, macaws, and an assortment of other animals, Leslie Marmon Silko sits down to write. Her home is a ranch carved […]

A PLAGUE OF FROGS The Horrifying True Story. By William Souder. Illustrated. 299 pp. New York: Hyperion. $23.95. We live in an age in which belief in the virtues of [...]

MIRACLE UNDER THE OAKS The Revival of Nature in America. By William K. Stevens. Illustrated. 332 pp. New York: Pocket Books. $22. WHAT the campaign against toxic chemicals was to [...]

ENVIRONMENT THE GREEN FUSE An Ecological Odyssey. By John Harte. University of California, $15. From the wilds of southwest Alaska to the windswept plains of central China, John Harte has [...]

OUR COUNTRY, THE PLANET Forging a Partnership for Survival. By Shridath Ramphal. Introduction by Seymour Topping. Island, cloth, $32; paper, $15. Shridath Rhamphal, the former secretary general of the British [...]

BORROWED EARTH, BORROWED TIME Healing America's Chemical Wounds. By Glenn E. Schweitzer. Plenum, $27.50. Billed as a discussion of chemical pollution, 'Borrowed Earth, Borrowed Time' offers instead a light insider's [...]

ECO-WARRIORS: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement. By Rik Scarce. (Noble Press, Paper, $11.95.) The direct-action wing of the environmental movement has garnered both widespread praise and opprobrium. An overwhelming groundswell [...]

LEAD: OVERTAPPED OASIS: Reform or Revolution for Western Water. By Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates. (Island Press, Cloth, $31.95; Paper, $17.95.) Four years ago, in his book ''Cadillac Desert,'' Marc [...]

LEAD: BIOSPHERES Metamorphosis of Planet Earth. By Dorion Sagan. 198 pp. New York. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. $19.95. BIOSPHERES Metamorphosis of Planet Earth. By Dorion Sagan. 198 pp. New York. McGraw-Hill [...]

Our Inevitable Genetic Future. REDESIGNING HUMANS By Gregory Stock. 277 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $24. GREGORY STOCK has written an enthusiastic book in support of germ-line manipulations--that is, making [...]

The article presents tips from older women to enjoy a long and healthy life. Miami resident Evelyn Streifer walks with her husband every morning at 6:15, takes hatha yoga once a week and plays tennis almost daily. Some years ago Streifer had a bad attack of arthritis. She credits a change in diet--elimination of red meat and caffeine--with reversing the attack and staving off the debility ever since. According to Audrey Finkelstein, 82, one has to stay occupied with something one enjoy doing. Claire Topper, 76, opines, health is a combination of physical well-being and mental well-being.

Discusses Hurricane Andrew's devastating effects on southern Florida on August 24, 1992. Unusualness of storm; Path of the storm; Forecasts; Dade County; Loss of power; New homeless; Civic errors; Poor construction of homes; National Hurricane Center; Details.