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...neighbors joined forces, they also joined thousands of others across the country in a grass-roots movement that a few years ago seemed most unlikely: fighting major retailers trying to move into their neighborhoods. After years of passively accepting -- sometimes even welcoming -- the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Payless Drug Stores, K Mart and Price Club, residents are now protesting in the streets and hectoring at town planning meetings. They feel they are now wise to the disadvantages such stores bring: increased traffic, air pollution and cannibalization of their hometown retailers. Add modern media savvy...
...behemoth retailers. Hundreds of new megastores are opening annually: major retailers spent over $11 billion in 1992 on capital expenditures for new stores, 16% more than in 1991. Wal-Mart, which began the year with 1,880 stores, now has 1,954, and will add 150 by January. Home Depot is expanding at a rate of one store a week...
Greatest resistance has come in the Northeast. After being listed as an endangered natural entity by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the state of Vermont has been fighting Wal-Mart with true Yankee moxie. Home Depot has likewise encountered lawsuits from the people of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Ozone Park in Queens, New York. What irks many citizens is the apparent ease with which the megastores are granted building permits without the customary impact studies, or in other cases, given permits in apparent violation of local zoning laws. Sometimes construction is under way before residents even realize a store...
...best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
...serves 34 customers who need coal and raw materials to turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot in Union Bridge, he listens to the comforting purr of his six locomotives prowling in the valley at 25 m.p.h. Small potatoes in the big picture. But last year the line grossed $2.3 million and made a gratifying $302,000. And Denton echoes the new call of railmen from...