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...urban poor is a global phenomenon. In Karachi, architect Akhter Hameed Khan rallied the people of the Orangi district around a self-help initiative to upgrade their sanitation. With 800,000 residents from five of Pakistan's major ethnic groups, the neighborhood is periodically racked by violence. Still, working lane by lane, beginning in 1980, Hameed Khan and his co-workers in the Orangi Pilot Project proved to the district that with a tiny investment ($40 a house), it could install its own sewerage system. Since then, roughly 70% of the 6,347 lanes have been linked to the system...
Also, graduate students who wish to add a second telephone line to rooms in Soldiers Field Park or Shaler Lane dormitories will now be charged...
...STINKY CHEESE MAN by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16). It was inevitable: revisionism has come to children's literature. In this collection the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, Cinderella's sisters win, and the frog prince croaks.The comedy depends on a knowledge of the original , stories; given that, the pictures are obvious and excessive. In other words, ideal kid stuff...
...Crimson narrowed the margin to ten points, 60-50, on an Arturo Llopis hook in the lane...
Bill Clinton may have enjoyed his vacation at the Bloodworth-Thomason's beach house in SUMMERLAND, California, but some wealthy neighbors are sneering about "our tax dollars at play." Huffed one neighbor: "Have you seen the Porta Potties along Padaro Lane?" Others carp that on the $200,000 salary Clinton will earn as President, he is not rich enough to buy a house in the area. Ronald Reagan, of course, lived up the road, but at least he wasn't a Democrat. Sighed a jaded millionaire as Clinton departed: "We survived Carter, and we'll survive...