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The driving force behind this fresh approach to urban government is a handful of "new pragmatist" mayors--Indianapolis' Goldsmith, Cleveland's Michael White, Philadelphia's Edward Rendell, Milwaukee's John Norquist, Chicago's Richard M. Daley and to some extent Los Angeles' Robert Riordan and New York City's Rudolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITY BOOSTERS | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

In middle-class and upper-middle-class homes the following scenario is played out daily. Wife and Husband have decided to buy a new family car, their last one having been rendered immobile by the accumulated weight of gum wads, empty juice boxes and broken plastic toys from McDonald's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ME TARZAN, YOU MINIVAN | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

No more "fingering" Harvard professors and friends to see when they had last logged on and when they might receive the mail I was about to send. No more "rwhoing" to discover who was burning the midnight halogen lamp online. And, most difficult to accept, no more access to HOLLIS...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Seeking the Tangible | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

How cheap is NASA's new "better, faster, cheaper" design philosophy? Compare this week's Pathfinder mission with the two Viking missions 21 years ago. Conceived in the heady era of big-budget NASA programs, the Vikings cost nearly $3 billion (measured in 1997 dollars) and were as ambitious and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST TIME WE SAW MARS | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

But the human performers, fine as they are, simply can't compare to the $10 million worth of eye candy that surrounds them. And perhaps it's just as well: "Showboat" is just what its name signifies, a spectacle that's meant to dazzle and entertain--and collect admission. On...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Musical | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

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