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Burke is right about the problem, though she may be very wrong about the likelihood of a new era soon. Suburbanization, the most irresistible demographic trend of the past 40 years, is indeed at the heart of why the inner cities have been reduced to hollow shells peopled largely by poor non- whites. The process began after World War II, when veterans by the thousands moved their families to suburbs like New York's Levittown. The draining of the cities accelerated during the 1960s and '70s, when malls sprouted across the nation, diverting shoppers from downtown business districts...
...Hollow Victory...
...JAPANESE LOST WORLD WAR II, why are they able to buy real estate and corporations of the former Allies? Was victory hollow then? Given the atrocities, is justice being confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled...
...thousands of glass ribs that are cast as part of the mirror's underlying structure. Arrayed in a striking hexagonal pattern, the ribs form an airy honeycomb that confers on the mirror the structural strength of solid glass at one-fifth the weight. Because the hexagonal cells are hollow, air can be circulated through them to keep the mirror in constant thermal balance...
Bush did manage to beat Clinton to the punch on Wednesday (by all of 21 minutes) but even that "victory" struck some of the President's more astute aides as hollow. "Either we should have beaten Clinton by at least one news cycle or we should have waited a few days," says a Bush political adviser. "As it was, all we did was pump up the opposition," par for the course for a campaign organization that has yet to get its bearings...