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...wear [Birkenstocks] not because I'm a hippie burnout, but because they're the most comfortable shoes you can buy," says Marc C. Foster, a rising senior at Lexington High School, though he admits that his choice of footwear may be directed by his parents' "clog genes hanging...
...phone companies and cable-TV systems are jockeying for position in what each views as a potentially vast market but which neither is ready to create. Stuart Brotman, a communications specialist in Lexington, Mass., estimates that cable operators would have to spend $20 billion to $30 billion on digital-compression and fiber-optic technology to prepare their systems for interactive programming. The telephone companies, for their part, would have to invest $300 billion to $500 billion in fiber-optic networks before they could deliver TV-quality pictures into every American's home...
This morning he woke up at 6 a.m., as usual, and cycled 40 miles, out to Concord and Lexington and back. In four years, he has seen most of Eastern Massachusetts: the ball fields and the town dumps and the reservoirs and the small airfields. On some day his trek stretches 60, even 70 miles...
Another way to recapture fleeing taxpayers might be to extend the city limits. In the 1960s and '70s cities like New Mexico's Albuquerque, Florida's Jacksonville and Kentucky's Lexington have preserved their tax base by annexing or merging with neighboring suburban communities. "They have not ghettoized their black and Hispanic populations to the degree other communities have," says David Rusk, a former mayor of Albuquerque, who is now an urban-affairs consultant...
...first stop was in Lexington, at Doug Holmes's place. Doug Holmes is a consulting engineer and makes his living giving practical advice. He has waged a lifelong battle against inefficiency and sloppy design...