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...current zoning is completely inappropriate for the location, Robert La Tremouille, who drafted the downzoning plan, told the council. "The zoning in the area is the highest and the densest in the city," he added...
...happened 1,250 miles upriver from the sea, at Kisangani, a Zairean city surrounded by one of the world's densest jungles. As the papal plane touched down, a band of horns, drums and a guitar beat out religious tunes. Two lines of teen-age girls in green swayed, sang and clapped their hands joyously. Swept up by the infectious rhythms, everyone, including the press, began to dance, even the veteran diplomatic correspondent of Italy's staid Corriere della Sera. When John Paul reached the green lines, he suddenly began to dance too, his big frame swaying back...
...Chinese are dismally housed, for the most part, with one of the world's densest urban populations. Yet in Shanghai or Canton, there is little sense of the tensions and frictions so close to the surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must...
...West. Perhaps none of the scenery through which it flows is more impressive than Idaho's Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area, a 33-mile stretch of water bordered on both sides by high-rise towers of volcanic rock and sheer sandstone cliffs, and inhabited by the densest nesting population of raptors, or birds of prey, anywhere in the world. Golden eagles perch on inaccessible crags; prairie and peregrine falcons launch themselves from cliff faces and soar into the high, crystalline desert sky. Eleven other species of raptor, from the diminutive robin-size kestrel, or sparrow hawk...
...slavery was America's original sin. Roots, for all its soap opera, sex and violence, seems to have had a certain expiatory effect. From the various mythic provinces of TV, which may be the densest core of American imagination now, are gathered a virtuous and likable group of heroes: Pa Cartwright from the Ponderosa, Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, affable Sergeant Enright from MacMillan and Wife and sweet Sandy Duncan from the apartment upstairs. But in Roots, they all turn counterfeit-treacherous, violent and contemptible. Only one white, Old George, is sympathetic. The blacks are noble...