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Between 1945 and 1955, the number of cars in America doubled from 26 million to 52 million. That boom, along with the highways that supported it, extended the strange and strained realm of suburbia. To absorb this mobility came drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks and, most important, the shopping mall--Main Street reconfigured for cars. Society was transfigured: the automobile brought America to a new frontier made up of Tinkertoy communities full of undefined relationships and spaces, with the car itself an extension of living room, playroom, bedroom, with the whole country viewed through the windshield...
First, propositions have become the play-thing of interest groups. It is amazing to think that lobbying groups feel they can convince more of the populace than the state representatives to get their law passed, but this is precisely what has happened. The recent advertising boom in proposition politics can be traced to the huge infusion of money from outside groups, who use California as a battleground for their national concerns. Tobacco giants and conservative think tanks as well as drug-legalization activists have acted around spending limits and disclosure laws to affect the outcome. National media attention has often...
Tired of feeling like we were the only people in the country who hadn't profited from the stock market boom, a month ago a bunch of friends and I decided to scrape together some money so we could get in on the action. Christening our makeshift investment club the Kirkland SuperFund (KSF), it wasn't long before we'd opened an account with one of the low-fee internet brokerage houses and started talking about how to allocate our $2,000 war chest...
...chief beneficiary of the boom is Whole Foods Market, whose 900% growth in the 1990s has produced a billion-dollar juggernaut with 78 stores in 17 states. Whole Foods rose to dominance in a three-year buying spree during which it acquired New England's Bread and Circus, North Carolina's Wellspring Markets and California's Mrs. Gooch's. Last year the company swallowed its biggest rival, the 22-store East Coast chain Fresh Fields, leaving Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo.--one-quarter its size--as the only two national natural-foods chains...
DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton...