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...capital's metropolitan area now is populated by an estimated 12 million souls-one-fifth of the nation-and more people flock to it every day. At least 500,000 campesinos arrive each year looking for work, then settle into makeshift hovels only marginally better than the villages they left behind. Once one of the hemisphere's most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot...
...more likely that he was born in the previous spring, perhaps during the May conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The argument supporting this comes from the Bible, Luke 2: 8: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." The Judean shepherds were out all night only in the spring. During winter there was no grazing, and the animals were penned...
...next morning 75 people gathered at All Saints', a racially mixed inner-city parish, as Means for the first time celebrated Communion, and Rector John Eastwood pleaded for the flock to be charitable. His concern stemmed from vocal opposition to his new priest, and the fact that ten people out of a parish membership of 150 have resigned in protest. Some of Means' opponents are alienated by her. aggressive, mildly profane style. (She will, for example, say "Oh Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory...
...money down, whether it is for $1 office pools or high-roller stakes. It is the biggest day of the year for bookies; estimates of the amount wagered range as high as $260 million. At the Stardust Lounge in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl betting is done legally, fans flock to the windows. Says the lounge's manager: "They'll come here out of the cracks of walls?from Texas, the Midwest, everywhere?to watch the game and bet." The word among bookies on the biggest Super Bowl bet ever made...
Many critics have not taken well to Dayton's movies, calling them "desultory," "terribly trite" and "poorly acted." Dayton is unfazed. In his view, the critics that count are the audiences who flock to his flicks. The professional ones can go to . . . err . . . heck...