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...Chicago the South Shore Bank, which has helped rehabilitate the city's South Shore area by providing reconstruction loans, has expanded into Austin, a blighted neighborhood of 150,000 residents on the city's West Side. The bank has made $500,000 in loans in Austin since last summer, and a bank affiliate is helping renovate two buildings in the area. In December, Chicago's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced it would donate $3 million to the project...
...WHAT NEXT! What next!" Austin was jumping up and down in destructive glee, a two-inch, 27 ounce steel chrome sizing ball oscillating dangerously in his sweaty palm. All around him in a happy cornucopia of wanton destruction lay the mangled, twisted remains of a tin of cookies, a beer can, a memo board, a squash racket, a small toaster oven and the Sunday Times...
...Austin, Dave and I had taken the term "study break" to its logical extreme and were now surrounded by the wreckage. Though we are ordinarily passive human beings, hours of focused mental exertion had exploded into random physical destruction. We were breaking apart our room...
...steel sizing ball which had become our weapon was the inexplicable product of a government surplus catalogue. Austin, a veteran consumer of the obscure, has an obsession for buying anything advertised with exclamation points--"Two-inch diameter! 27 ounces!" After three intense hours of academic grundgework--a feat of concentration made more impressive by the blaring conditions forced on us by a merciless stereo--Dave had conceived of a use for the Steel Chrome Sizing Ball. "Boys," he had said, "it's time to relax...
DAVE, THE MOST grotesquely warped of our trio, made a grab for the steel ball and disappeared down the hallway, yelling something about Bowling for Doorknobs. Austin and I exchanged glances of abject terror. We knew about Dave's fetish for doors. One door in particular. "Daaaaaaaaave...