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...resistance of many communities to low-income housing. Margie Figueroa, 21, typifies the problem. She had to commute two hours each way, on three buses and a train, from Chicago's Humboldt Park barrio to her job as a maid at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near O'Hare International Airport. The effort was too much; she quit, and remains unemployed...
...sitar sounded throughout the service, and the bride's jeweled nose pin glittered in the ceremonial firelight. It was the Hindu wedding, in East Detroit, of Lekhasravanti (nee Elizabeth Louise Reuther), 30, daughter of the late Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and her fellow Hare Krishna member, Bhusaya (Bruce Dickmeyer), 27. The best man: Ambarish, 27, otherwise known as Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry I. No other Fords were in sight, but the bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said a wide-eyed...
...controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better...
...Cheerful employees can always brighten a weary or troubled traveler. I've been in only six of the airports mentioned, but I would rate them as follows: Denver's Stapleton: very helpful and friendly. Kennedy and LaGuardia: surprisingly friendly and helpful. Charles de Gaulle and O'Hare: civil. National: grouchy...
Some years later, Trivers reasoned that if Hamilton was right about the social insects, worker ants would spend three times the energy rearing sisters as rearing brothers, because the workers are three times more closely related to their sisters than to their brothers. Trivers and his associate, Hope Hare, then analyzed thousands of ants of 20 different species and confirmed the 3-to-1 female dominance?the strongest evidence so far that organisms act as if they understand the underlying genetics...