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The Olympic games are the most important symbol of Atlanta's evolution from provincial mill-town to modern metropolis since (dare I say it?) William Tecumseh Sherman.
Philadelphia has long held a special place in American affections as a cradle of liberty. Now the nation's fifth largest metropolis (pop. 1.5 million) seems about to win a new reputation -- as the first major U.S. city to go to the verge of fiscal collapse since Boston hit the...
He takes his Atlanta record with him into parts of the state that consider that metropolis a den of sin and crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from...
Elegant, who draws on the tradition of the John Gunther series that included | Inside Europe Today, is tirelessly entertaining. His recollection of Indonesia under the demagogic strongman Sukarno casts history as comedy. His chapter on Australia is a lesson on how charm, wit and isolationism cannot save a country from...
Growth is the most frequently cited explanation for woman power in San Diego. The shimmering harbor city grew nearly 30%, to 1.1 million in the 1980s and was transformed from a sleepy Navy town to a booming metropolis. It became second only to Los Angeles in the West and sixth...