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TALLAHASSEE, Florida--Advances in medical technology, computers and mass transportation aside, the national magnet laboratory scheduled to open its doors in 1993 probably will keep Tallahassee utility bills down...
Some of the Central Square merchants grumble about the shelter, describing it as a magnet drawing fresh crowds of vagrants to the area. But to hear Win Poor, the shelter's director, tell the story, people's attitudes are--slowly--beginning to change...
Chief Paolillo says that the magnet effect exists, but that the shelter is the only place the police, who brought 2022 people to the shelter last year, can take area's homeless people...
Nostalgia is a great magnet for the iron horse, as is curiosity for a generation that grew up speeding down the interstates and making bicoastal parabolas at 30,000 ft. A train ride is a visceral excursion into history. You can hear, if you listen carefully, the hiss of escaping steam, the chime of crystal goblets and the rustle of starched table linens. You can see, if you open your mind's eye, a lone Navajo saluting the Super Chief as it pulls into Albuquerque; buffalo racing alongside the Empire Builder in Montana. On board there are movie stars...
...cultural projects, many of them small, marginal, obscure and quite outside the field of prestige corporate underwriting. About 85,000 of these grants, nearly 90% of them for less than $50,000 each, have been distributed since 1965. But, though seldom large, the NEA grant is a powerful magnet for corporate dollars...