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...spotted in city hall for the first time in memory. Says Mark Iapicca, who runs a parking lot beneath the elevated Central Artery: "There are already more rats than people around here, and they're bigger than my dog. They're underground now, but what happens when they go aboveground...
...tons per inch -- on a par with a shark. It will eat almost anything, and has been known to attack human babies. Some of the Boston rats have lived their entire lives underground, and no one knows how they will behave when exposed to the cultural opportunities of aboveground Boston...
...Japanese companies say they have the technology to build extensive subterranean projects without disturbing the people aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...
...Shaker Lane (Viking; $14.95). Into the old Shaker country of abandoned farms come the first of the home builders. A sleepy village is born. In time it gives way to county developers. Where once there were bulls there are now bulldozers, and in their wake come tract housing, aboveground swimming pools and backyard basketball courts. One holdout remains, surviving on his houseboat, a poignant reminder of the rural past. The Provensens' flat, colorful paintings are nostalgic for the old times without putting down the present. They imply that however the land alters, one basic need endures: a good place...
...gentry go to more extravagant lengths. Cableland, the 30-room mansion built by Cable TV Mogul Bill Daniels in Denver, has a bandstand in the living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool in his kitchen...