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...that pitch was only half the battle. The following week Levin summoned Time Warner president Richard Parsons from his vacation for a trip to Englewood, Colorado, where the two executives made their overture to the other major party in the deal, cable king John Malone, whose Tele-Communications empire owns 21% of tbs and holds three seats on its board...
Greg Lopez gets lost when he drives around Parker, Colorado. And he's not from out of town--he's the mayor. Once a bedroom community, Parker is bursting with new streets and new residents--and is afflicted with a new sense of dislocation. From the steps of town hall, newly constructed grayish buildings can be seen spattered across a nearby hillside; at the town's outer limits, the wooden skeletons of half-built houses are strewed along the landscape. In five years, Parker's population has doubled, to 10,000. Last February local voters reacted to the boom...
...annexed to the city so it could be commercially developed. Hall, along with a dozen neighbors, formed the Anderson Field Alliance to block the move and attempt to raise $8 million to buy and preserve the land, an effort that is stalled in city bureaucracy. In Douglas County, Colorado, a fast-growing Denver exurb, some locals have formed the Pinery Coalition to oppose a bid by the Great Gulf Group of Companies to build houses on a pine-studded local hillside and potentially raise the number of residences from 1,900 to 2,700. "My kids are already in full...
Some residents believe the no-growth movement is futile and foolish. Says John Healy, a councilman in Parker: "The mind-set is 'I've got my five acres, so close the door.' " Gordon Mickelson, whose plans to develop 2,900 acres in Broomfield, Colorado, were thwarted by a local six-month suspension of planning hearings, says such measures could have dire consequences. "When you send a message of no growth, you're telling business, 'Don't come here...
...personal tragedy that brought Pagels to reflect on Satan. In 1987 her six-year-old son Mark died of a respiratory illness. Fifteen months later, her husband Heinz, a physicist, fell to his death while hiking in Colorado. Eventually, Pagels found herself reflecting on the ways in which an invisible presence, like her missing loved ones, holds power over the living. In that frame of mind she turned to the early church and its invisible enemy...