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...rewarded with the life she always wanted -- based solely on appearance. She goes "from one perfect outfit to the next . . . Someone could always be watching." This obsession with surfaces is contagious: First Novelist Simpson also suffers from it. She uses brand names and meticulous descriptions of the ordinary to build an appearance of reality, but beneath the book's carefully crafted details there is not quite enough of the breath or pulse of life...
...tunnels that connect downtown to Logan International Airport are congested eight hours a day. Massive infusions of money into the mass-transit system, boat shuttles and airport helicopter services have failed to reduce traffic. Solution: widen and lower to ground level the now elevated distressway and build a third harbor tunnel. Price: $3.1 billion. Federal share: $2.5 billion...
Much about the semiconductor pact is indeed questionable in economic terms. Among other things, it raises the costs of American manufacturers who use the devices to build computers and other products, thus making them more vulnerable to foreign competition. But to U.S. trade officials, the evidence of alleged Japanese dumping and Japan's refusal to open domestic semiconductor markets were the last straw. For one thing, the ink on the semiconductor agreement was barely dry before, in Washington's view, it was being ignored. For another, that Japanese behavior seemed to U.S. officials to be part of a familiar Japanese...
...proposal would have included restrictions on the controversial Simplex housing development near MIT. The city's new regulation does not affect that land. Community activists have insisted for the past two years that the site's owners should build low-income housing there...
Dukakis has been traveling to key politicalstates in recent weeks, an has made the pledge toappear in Iowa every two weeks, and New Hampshireevery week to try to build support...