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...will take the easy way out, designing housing wholesale. What about all the new passengers added to overburdened mass transit? Says Trump airily: "We'll renovate a couple of subway stations, et cetera, et cetera." Planners of housing for the poor realized years ago that isolated high-rise flats foster a dangerous anomie. Condo buyers may be unlikely to join street gangs, but Television City will be an interesting experiment: extreme swank and large-scale alienation, together for the first time...
China's wise leader Deng Xiaoping made a good impression on European readers like me. Mikhail Gorbachev should take lessons from Deng and also foster a market economy. It would help bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to the Soviet people. Western politicians should intensify their relations with this newly developing China. Carsten Jaeger Wiesbaden, West Germany Spy's Smile...
...boss by turning writer. The result is Home Front (Crown; $15.95), to be published in March, a reflective novel about a 1960s college student who defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction such a snap that she has already begun a second novel and has received offers to develop Home Front into a television movie. Naturally, Davis, who was featured...
...error and tried to give her son the extra attention he needs. Not all teenagers do. According to the Children's Aid Society in New York City, one of the oldest family agencies in the country, a large number of babies delivered to teenage mothers wind up in foster care. "Teenagers get excited about this little, adorable person that's all theirs," explains Barbara Emmerth of the New York City-based Citizens' Committee for Children, "but when the kid is in the terrible twos and the mother wants to go out on dates instead of taking care of the little...
...even suggested that Italy should call a referendum on whether to readopt the lira. But after a meeting of the European central bank's council earlier this month that left policy unchanged, Trichet said the current rates were "appropriate" and "fully in line with what would be best to ... foster growth and job creation." The talk about Europe's dumping the euro, he added, was as ridiculous as contemplating the likelihood that Alaska, California or Florida might ditch the dollar...