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...prosperity. Yet in many cities the glass-and-steel monuments have now come to represent wretched excess. During the past five years, U.S. developers have constructed a breathtaking surplus of office towers, condominium complexes and hotels. In Los Angeles, a rusting, 17-story framework of steel girders on Wilshire Boulevard has stood idle for three years because of collapsed condo prices. Denver's tallest building, the 56-story Republic Plaza office tower, is only half rented despite such amenities as a concierge, an Italian-marble lobby, a car wash and computerized climate control. Florida's $197 million Le Pavillion hotel...
...bleak Chicago community called Grand Boulevard, this sort of thing happens all the time. "For children to die is part of the life-style," says Linda Edwards, a social worker who counsels high-risk mothers in the area. In the U.S. as a whole, roughly one baby in 100 will die before its first birthday. In Grand Boulevard, one in every 38 dies, and there are streets where the rate is closer...
...Grand Boulevard is a slum, and maybe a worse slum for having had a splendid past. In little more than a century, it has known both wealth and glory, as home to the gentry of two distinctly separate societies...
Chino's terms of parole barred him from returning to the Playboys' territory, around the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Fedora Street in L.A.'s Rampart district, but he quickly reappeared at his old haunts anyway. He set about goading some of the younger homeboys to "put some work in" for the gang. That usually meant getting stoned, then driving a car through a rival gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found...
...city most people know as South Central. When he was in sixth grade, he became a “better chance” scholar, participating in a national program that prepares minority students for admissions to elite schools. He attended the Brentwood School, a private school on Sunset Boulevard, where he was elected head prefect—student body president. He was also a Ron Brown scholar, a Riordan scholar, and first violin in the Pasadena Youth Orchestra...