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...voters of Los Angeles will make a very expensive decision at the polls this fall. Should they authorize a special new 1% sales tax to subsidize bus fares and finance a brand-new $8 billion mass-transit system? Or should they turn down the proposition and face the unpleasant prospect of eventual curbs on the use of private cars-a drastic turn-away from the freewheeling California lifestyle...
Rock is no longer a dirty word in Austin. Indeed, by embracing rock's big beat, Austin's musicians have evolved a brand-new style of country rock, and have made the city the fastest-growing country-music center in the U.S. Nashville, still the capital of country, may provide more regular work. Bakersfield, Calif., may offer the inspirational presences of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But from the point of view of new sounds, freedom and plain musical fun, Austin now definitely ranks as No. 1. Within the past two years, following the lead of such veterans...
Among the most vexing problems is reconciling a career with the demands of motherhood. Susan Catania, 32, a Republican member of the Illinois house of representatives, takes her fifth daughter Amy to sessions of the state legislature and regularly repairs to a brand-new women's lounge to breastfeed the infant. Other women have solved family demands in somewhat less dramatic ways. Says Radcliffe's Horner...
...Jazzman Herbie Hancock's Beverly Hills house, a brand-new $2,800 Arp 2600 three-oscillator synthesizer sits right next to his Butsudan altar. "There are no miracles in Buddhism, but chanting has never failed," says Herbie. "You can do it if you have a problem, or if you want something to happen or not happen. It's you you are chanting to. It's just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light...
...New York City police department's internal affairs division suddenly stops the videotaped drama and looks out at his "Integrity Training" class of 38 police academy students. "What kind of situation is this?" he asks. "Very tempting," offers one student. The class laughs. Danschisch is not amused. The brand-new mandatory 10-hour course uses films and actual case histories to prepare the future cops for the ethical pressures they will face. Instructors like Danschisch take the program very seriously. The video tape moves again. "I'm sure this guy's insured," the rogue cop says...