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Their favorite villain, throughout, is Harvard University. "Harvard Mission Hill Enemy No.1," the community newspaper headlines read. They protest the constant stream of 30-day eviction notices; they claim Harvard has encouraged "premeditated blight" by buying homes where they intend to put the power plant, letting them run down, and then proceeding to ask for redevelopment power under the law. They see it as a struggle to survive...
...first families moved into Sugar Creek four years ago, the worst "crimes" have been youthful pranks?broken windows, street lights shot out with BB guns. The sort of thing, in fact, that used to worry policemen in thousands of communities across the country. That was before crime became a blight on America, the dark side of a society dedicated to freedom...
...environmental and social disaster. Says Republican Governor Jay S. Hammond, a former bush guide: "We can't preserve Alaska as we know it, we're going to have to lose some freedoms and qualities of life here." The boom is bringing to the last frontier urban blight, soaring prices, traffic jams, housing shortages and short tempers...
Giant Labs. Such new towns, conceived in more affluent and idealistic times, were intended to absorb the U.S.'s inexorable metropolitan growth without creating urban blight or suburban sprawl. Each was also supposed to have become a self-sufficient community -sometimes even within a city-where good schools, green parks and clean industry would be within walking distance of attractive homes. Imbued with that hopeful vision, Congress passed laws in 1968 and 1970 that 1) offered federal funds and technical aid to approved developers, and 2) guaranteed up to $50 million worth of each developer's bonds, plus...
...movies. Usually by this time of year, when the Oscar nominations come out, and the Groundhog and the Valentines come out, and the senior theses come out, good new movies do nothing of the kind. It's the post-Christmas blight. This year as much as any Hollywood saved up for December, gambling that in this foul foul year when people across the world are facing disaster like never before, American moviegoers would be bored enough to relish apocalyptic scenes of their own destruction. Anyway, Christmas was a boom. Last year at this time, around when Patty Hearst...