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...Lourdes or Jerusalem. The entrance foyer duly gives onto the shop and a meeting room and a children's art studio and a conference theater; the architect calls the foyer an internal piazza, but its main use is probably for giving parties-just as, in New York City, the giant glass hangar containing the Met's Temple of Dendur has devolved into the only post-Ptolemaic discotheque in the world...
Sweetened by a tax loophole for big companies selling media properties to minority owners, Viacom Inc., the entertainment giant, will sell its cable-TV unit to a partnership backed by Tele-Communications, Inc., the top U.S. cable operator. Price tag: $2.3 billion. The deal will create the country's largest minority-owned cable system...
...offering every imaginable social service from counseling to fitness centers. John Vaughan, who tracks these Protestant Wal-Marts in Megachurches & America's Cities, says a quarter-century ago, 10 U.S. Protestant congregations reported weekly attendance of 2,000 or more. Today 400 churches make this claim, with a new giant joining the list every few weeks...
...that runs for 650 miles through California from north of San Francisco nearly to the Mexican border. But the Kobe and Northridge quakes occurred not along these major inter-plate faults--cracks where continent-size plates grind against one another--but on intra-plate faults that spiderweb a single giant plate...
...After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before he perfected a recipe for the Milo powder mix that Nestle launched in 1934. Today 90,000 tons of Milo worth $420 million are sold each year in 30 countries...