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High technology doesn't play favorities. It helps the NASA engineer, the modern architect, the computer programmer and now marijuana dealers. Using the sophisticated techniques of hydroponics, potgrowers are causing new troubles for the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), whose agents are unable to find the indoor-grown pot rapidly becoming a lucrative business...
That idea, though, was slow to be accepted. "This is the little town that could. And it almost didn't," says Architect Tom Hirsch. Along with Ron Swiggum, who lost his meat-locker business in the last flood, Hirsch is the man most responsible for making the move possible. Together the two argued with fellow townsfolk, filled out forms, wrote letters, badgering the Government to move the downtown district from here to there...
Just 2½ years ago, she was Lisa Halaby, daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman...
...principal architect of Cleveland's renaissance is George Voinovich, 44, the Republican former Lieutenant Governor who defeated Kucinich in last year's mayoral election. Voinovich began by patching up relations with the Cleveland business community. He persuaded major firms to donate the services of their top auditors and executives for more than four months to analyze the city's books and management problems. By April, Cleveland had balanced its budget. Voinovich persuaded local banks to refinance $10.5 million in defaulted notes last month, and in effect to loan the city another $25.7 million - both at a fire...
...Acting is much like professional football," observes Norman Mailer, writer and sometime thespian. So when it came time to film his big scene in the movie Ragtime-wherein his character, Architect Stanford White, is assassinated by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy)-the star got the pre-game jitters, "not because I was being shot, but because I might let the team down." He died like a pro. As the bullets flew, he slumped convincingly over a table, then rolled to the floor. His comely companion cried holy murder, which made Mailer especially proud. She is his sixth and current...