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...onetime cotton depot, Houston was the nation's fastest-growing major metropolitan area in the past decade. Population is up 70% since 1960, and since 1975 the city has led the nation in residential construction. Space for the sprawl is no problem because miles of prairie scrubland lie in three directions, and towns along the way are simply annexed. Nor does government interfere: Houston has no zoning laws. Dallas, however, is hemmed in by suburbs that resist annexation, and the city's urban planners have carefully guided expansion. Admits Dallas Developer Scovell: "Sure, we were jealous of Houston...
Although McDonald's, the fast-food giant based in Oak Brook, Ill., boasts that it has sold more than 35 billion hamburgers since its founding in 1955, the chain's fastest-growing offering in recent years has been its breakfast menu, which features eggs and pancakes and accounts for 18% of sales. The firm is also touting McChicken, a fried chicken sandwich that will be on sale in 60% of the chain's 6,500 units by year's end. Rival Burger King is now selling a sandwich-style version of veal parmigiana. And Jack...
...dining room, it was boasted, was longer and more lustrous than the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem...
...Navy, the Midshipment will be dedicating a new pool, built by the designers of Blodgett and claimed to be the fastest in the East. But fast swimmers will win out over fast pools, anytime...
Librarians from each school could vie to find books on the reserve shelf fastest; dining hall workers could compete to see which school produces the better meal (it's all relative) and serve it most efficiently...