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...even an easy aside like, "To a dog, every day is Saturday." The American Kennel Club observed the 100th anniversary of its founding this year in Philadelphia. It was founded, in fact, on Sept. 17, 1884, right there in Philadelphia. To mark the occasion, the AKC put together the largest dog show ever held in North America. It brought more than 8,000 dogs to the Philadelphia Civic Center. Security was tighter than a rusted nut. Tighter than it had been a month before during the vice-presidential debate in the same spot, according to a visitor who attended both...
...eavesdropper at the continent's largest dog show, caught in the crush of humanity and canines, scarcely able to move, could not help overhearing such telling bits of dialogue as these...
Mexico City, Nov. 19,1984. Shortly before dawn, liquefied-gas tanks exploded at the San Juan Ixhuatepec storage facility operated by state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos. The resulting fire took 452 lives and injured 4,248 in Mexico's largest industrial disaster; 1,000 people are still missing...
There are 30 other big gas plants in and around Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis (pop. 18 million). One facility frequently cited as a potential "time bomb" is a refinery at Azcapotzalco, in the northern part of the city, that was built in 1959. At the time, few people lived in the area; now the neighborhood is as crowded as the rest of Mexico City. Says one worried housewife: "If there were an accident, we would be talking of thousands of lives lost, not hundreds." In the aftermath of the San Juan Ixhuatepec disaster, there have been...
When Harvard buys up apartment space in the area local residents complain says Sally Zeckhauser president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE). But when Cambridge's largest landlord gets out of the market as it is doing now local residents complain, she adds...