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Especially in the Eastern U.S., where population is denser and land costs higher than in the West, the demand for condominiums seems to be insatiable. Last year 16% of the nation's housing starts were condominiums; this year the figure will be 27%. Buyers are signing up for such varied accommodations as $10,000 row houses on the fringes of Florida's Everglades, and nine-room dockside extravaganzas in Greenwich, Conn., priced as high as $220,000 each. In almost every area and price range, condominiums are either challenging or surpassing leased apartments as the dominant multifamily housing...
Though only indirect evidence has been found in lunar rocks, the moon apparently once had a magnetic field. Finally, the differences in composition between the lunar highlands and the moon's maria are somewhat similar to those between the earth's relatively lightweight continents and its denser deep-sea floor...
Even before the first Apollo flight, lunar scientists had made a startling discovery. They found that the unmanned lunar orbiters were being thrown unexpectedly off course as they passed over certain lunar seas. Careful calculation showed that this extra gravitational tug was apparently due to concentrations of denser material under the moon's surface. These "mascons," as they were dubbed, still defy explanation, although theories abound: one says that they are heavy material that crystallized early in the moon's history; another claims they are the compacted residue of meteors. To complicate matters, careful tracking of the Apollo...
...other hand, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a far denser reality to the role of the morphine-addicted wife than Florence Eldridge did. Eldridge seemed more absent-minded and scatterbrained than deeply disturbed and confused. Fitzgerald is the shy convent girl, the impish coquette and the victim of the lonely despair of a thousand one-night stands spent in second-rate hotels. She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow. She, rather than the father, seems to dominate the play...
Indirect Costs. Another argument met the developers head on. Do skyscrapers really benefit a city? No one denies that big buildings provide big tax revenues. Even so, recent studies show that as a city grows denser, the per capita costs of all municipal services, including administration, soar. In addition, Manufacturer Duskin contends, towers built in San Francisco since 1965 have had another city-blighting effect. They create new office jobs-but for the wrong people. He quotes a report revealing that jobs held by commuters have gone up by 23%, while jobs for city dwellers have increased by only...