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...stadium seating (for unobstructed views) and ear-shattering digital sound, costs in the range of $15 million to $25 million. Moreover, theaters still retain only 50% of ticket revenues, handing the rest over to the studios and relying on concessions for the big bucks. Add to that the fiscal drain of shutting down "older" multiplexes (relics around for a decade), and it's no wonder that the bottom lines of leaders like AMC, Loews Cineplex and Carmike are getting bad reviews. "It's going to be ugly," says analyst David Londoner at Schroder...
DIED. WILLIAM NIERING, 75, wetland-ecology expert; in New London, Conn. He was one of the first to discover that marshes performed important functions and weren't dispensable pieces of land for developers to drain and build...
...covert action plan has its exotic aspects. Agency computer hackers will try to disrupt Milosevic's private financial transactions and electronically drain his overseas bank accounts. (Intelligence officials suspect he has money socked away in Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece, Russia and China.) The CIA also hopes to funnel cash secretly to opposition groups inside Yugoslavia as well as recruit dissidents within the Belgrade government and the Yugoslav military. Last month roads in four Serbian towns and villages were blocked by young reservists protesting the army's failure to pay them for two months...
...Florida Bay, sustaining life in marshes, coral reefs and cities. But a half-century ago, everyone else deemed it a mosquito-infested alligator swamp that was in the way of sugar fields and pink ranch houses. So the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built canals and levees to drain, rechannel--and utterly trash--eons of delicate natural plumbing. Result: 90% of South Florida's wading-bird population is gone, and the human population, set to double to 12 million in 50 years, is facing potentially catastrophic shortages of drinking water, partly because drainage canals carry off too much water...
...Down the Drain...