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...their cooking fires in front of houses, sleeping on lawns and in vacant lots. Beyond the town, 320,000 more refugees have set up home in filthy, sprawling & camps. The human wave, augmented each day by new arrivals, is rapidly overwhelming the resources of a town that cannot even boast the rudimentary air and road links that allowed international aid groups to get supplies and medicine to Goma...
This scene from The Mask is a scream, all right. But no mere live-action film could boast the speed and grace of the 1943 cartoon that directly inspired it: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. Catch it some night on cable's Cartoon Network. The Wolf enters a club called the Sunset Strip ("30 Gorgeous Girls -- No Cover"), and starts palpating when Red, in a scarlet bustier, sings Daddy. Wolfie goes bats: chairs fly, factory whistles blow, mechanical hands clap. And Red is worth every libidinal leer. With her Bette Davis voice, Betty Grable legs and Betty Boop...
...activities at the new parks, the biggest draw is miniature golf. The high-tech courses, which boast indigo-tinted waterfalls and animated jungle creatures, are a far cry from the concrete dinosaurs and creaky windmills that made these kitschy creations an icon of America's vacation landscape. Not bad for a pastime that was pooh-poohed during the 1920s as "nitwit golf...
Each, of course, will boast new electrical heating and lighting systems, as well as sprinkler systems and fire alarms...
...SPREADING LABOR UNREST IS also testimony to the difficulty of converting a welfare state, with cradle-to-grave protections for workers, to what Beijing's leaders call a "socialist market economy." China may boast one of the world's fastest-growing gross domestic products -- GDP shot up 13.4% in 1993 and at nearly a 13% annual rate in the first quarter of 1994 -- but at least for the short term, the process of converting to a market economy has cost China many more jobs than it has created. State-run factories, which still employ more than two-thirds of China...