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...predominant city. There have been conglomerations." Most of what commonly passes for L.A. lies inside the generous boundaries (4,083 sq. mi.) of Los Angeles County. The county, bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, contains lots of undeveloped, unincorporated scrubland as well as 82 towns and cities. The largest, of course, is the City of Los Angeles, which consists of 464 sq. mi. in the center of the county...
...privilege in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the Citadel military school in Charleston, S.C., Motley joined the Air Force and was posted from 1965 to 1967 in Panama-his only Central American experience-and later in Alaska. There he switched careers and founded what has since become the largest real estate firm in the state. He was, recalls Anchorage Attorney Clifford Groh, "affable, very enjoyable," but also a "take-charge sort...
Bowers divides her time between teaching, research and caring for the Museum of Comparative Zoology's lepidoptera's collection, the largest university collection in the world with 6 million insect specimens. The collection needs constant revision since scientists all over the world request samples of different species. The assistant professor taught two courses this past year in insect biology, in addition to enlarging her own personal butterfly collection. One of her favorite butterfly-related activities is feeding her checkerspots, because she can watch their abdomens slowly fill up with the sugar solution that makes up their daily meal...
Before the United States has to negotiate with extreme cultural, nationalistic and internationalist pressures of both the left and the right in the remotest nations of this hemisphere--Chile and Argentina--in the largest nation--Brazil--and in the closest one--Mexico--it should rapidly, in its own interests as well as ours, negotiate in Central America and the Caribbean...
Following is a list of the 50 largest companies in the Standard and Poors 500 index. The companies in italics do business in South Africa...