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...companies they would lure with an "incubator" incentive package, including one year of free access to ISDN lines, low-rent offices in the neighborhood of $30 to $40 a month and free technical advice. The goal is to attract high-tech businesses like the one that recently moved in downtown, Integrated Technology Group, which makes software for robotic controls. Gus Comstock, the city's economic development director, sees this as the right kind of business for the future. It is high paying, clean, and does not tax the local infrastructure. "You don't need mammoth loading docks," says Comstock...
...economy, and so it has usually mirrored the country's fortunes. Right now that reflection is beguiling: new construction in Ross County has quadrupled in the past seven years; the average home, which sold for $49,700 in 1989, now sells for $84,200. The pretty downtown brick buildings, hollowed and haunted in the '80s, are being turned into stores with condo apartments on top. "In 1990 I don't remember one ribbon cutting for a new business," says David Milliken, president of the Chillicothe-Ross Chamber of Commerce. "Lately we've had about one every month...
...residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final battle is near, shops and stalls at the central market closed early, while police roamed the downtown area, stopping people to demand bribes. Opposition parties, hoping to convince Mobutu to resign, have called for a general strike Wednesday to coincide with the president's planned talks with Kabila in Pointe-Noire, Congo...
...Andrew Weil finds it easy to drop completely from sight. One of the most recognizable doctors in the country lives in one of its most private corners, at the foot of the remote Rincon Mountains in southern Arizona. To get there you have to travel about 35 miles outside downtown Tucson, along progressively rutted, flood-prone roads, until an incongruously suburban sign points you to the WEIL RESIDENCE. If Weil didn't show the way, it is unlikely you'd ever stumble across the place...
...after Rent was supposed to have revolutionized the Broadway musical, the Great White Way scarcely seems to have noticed. Nearly all this season's big musicals are arriving, as usual, in the last two frantic weeks before the Tony Award nominations. And far from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop...