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Article: Why 12 new people are settling in L.A. each hour; Shunned just a few years ago, Los Angeles has regained title as America's Ellis Island.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 17, 2000
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The Mr. Olympia of American counties - which became a 98-pound weakling during the early 1990s - is back on Muscle Beach.
Just five years ago, Los Angeles County was losing so many people it was the fastest-shrinking area in the nation. But now, fueled by immigration, young migrants from other states, and new jobs in a reinvented regional economy, it has roared back to become the fastest-growing US county.
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