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...lots left after the rioting. The intersection of 103rd Street and Compton Avenue, ground zero in 1965, could be Anywhere U.S.A. The sprawling Watts Health Center dominates one corner and a new post office the other. Across the street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little crime in the nine-month-old shopping center, and the reasons why tell a great deal about Watts: 17 security guards are on the payroll, and iron en trance gates, controlled from a rooftop command post, can be closed...
...just as firm with adults as she is soft with kids. Six years ago, when she discovered the house she and her two sons were renting was up for sale, she bid for it at auction and won. But when she went to see the loan officer at the local branch of one of South Africa's biggest banks, he didn't want to know her. She didn't have enough for a deposit, he said. She was a bad risk. Leo took time off work and went to plead her case every day for three weeks. Finally...
Still, for all the talk about a coming "nuclear renaissance," the industry's growth prospects could easily experience a meltdown. Various pieces of the energy bill being discussed in Washington include the possibility of tax credits, loan guarantees and an extended government-insurance program in case of major accidents, all of which could help spur new construction. But most industry experts say it will take many more federal handouts to convince Wall Street that new nuclear power plants--which went way over budget in their first incarnation--can ultimately be economically competitive. The thorniest issue facing the industry is what...
...Organized by community leaders and built with donations from Muslims across the U.S. and a loan from the Islamic Development Bank, Universal opened its doors in 1990. Since then it has become a fully accredited institution, with 95% of its graduates going on to college. The growing sense of harmony was abruptly reversed on the morning of 9/11. After a frightened parent called the school, a classroom TV was wheeled into vice chairman Zarzour's office, where he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "As soon as the terrorism speculation started," says Zarzour, "the parents came...
...addition, a $3 million loan fund has been created to facilitate payment for the adaptation of buildings to make them more energy-efficient...