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Asbestos lurks in some of the most prominent and populated structures: Manhattan's World Trade Center, Chicago's John Hancock Building and Houston's Astrodome. But it can be found at many ordinary addresses as well. More than 733,000 structures, or 20% of U.S. commercial and public properties, are believed to contain the mineral, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In about two-thirds of buildings with asbestos, some of the material is in a friable state, which means it is crumbling into microscopic fibers that can float through the air. (There has yet been no federal survey...
Melamed sees the Chicago scandal as just part of an ethical malaise in financial markets around the world. Said he: "Whatever the reason, it's a shame, and I think it's our greatest danger." His conciliatory move this week may actually hasten reform and speed up the Government investigation by reducing the elements of conflict, as he intends. But Melamed's response recalled a bit of wisdom from a bygone era in Chicago: when surrounded by the Feds, come out with your hands...
...reason is that women feel especially vulnerable to violent crime -- often with good reason. Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist, was attacked several years ago at the University of Illinois Medical Center by two men, one carrying a gun, she fought off a rape but was severely beaten. Then, on a Saturday morning last year, she was attacked again as she approached her car parked outside a neighborhood church. "After that I said, 'That's it, no more.' I made the decision then and there that my protection was in my own hands." Kolen bought a gun and is going...
...PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning ( Fences with the haunting lyricism of his Joe Turner's Come and Gone...
...Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina Garcia, S.C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...