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...opera into an international powerhouse that won renown by presenting major works, like Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, for the first time in the U.S., and by offering major American opera debuts to Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sir Georg Solti. While never equaling New York City's Metropolitan Opera in either budget (currently $23.7 million vs. $88 million) or length of season (13 weeks compared with 32 weeks), San Francisco established itself as an alternative that was often more interesting and adventurous than its staid East Coast rival...
...constructed mainly as bypasses for long-distance travelers. Local commuters, by contrast, generally moved in and out of urban downtown areas in a radial pattern, along the paths of mass transit and major thoroughfares. But the majority of work is no longer downtown: the suburbs contain 60% of current metropolitan jobs and 67% of all new ones, according to the Transportation Department. As a result, many workers commute from one suburb to another, and they crowd onto the beltways because mass transit and other roads are not well developed along those routes...
Until cities can revamp their streets and highways, they will have to work harder to manage the traffic flow. Authorities in Los Angeles, Chicago and other metropolitan areas have installed electronic sensors in the pavement to get a continuous reading of traffic speed and volume. When a highway becomes clogged, controllers can adjust the timing of stoplights on the on-ramps to reduce the flow of vehicles. In Virginia traffic supervisors use remote TV cameras installed along stretches of I-66 and I-395 to spot breakdowns, to which they immediately dispatch tow trucks that dispense free gasoline...
RECYCLE IT. Many communities are taking a new look at this clean and, in some ways, most efficient solution. Illinois Governor James Thompson last week signed into law a bill requiring 18 of the state's largest counties, as well as metropolitan Chicago, to develop by March 1991 comprehensive waste- management programs that emphasize recycling. Said the Governor: "We're simply running out of room, out of time and out of money for facing these ((garbage-disposal)) problems in the same old way." EPA Administrator Porter has set a goal of having 25% of U.S. garbage recycled...
Magazines, however, are but one of the pillars that support Murdoch's far- flung realm. The others: newspapers, books, films and television. Murdoch controls more than 60% of metropolitan newspaper circulation in Australia and 36% of the national distribution in Britain. Although he built his company primarily on racy tabloids and conservative politics, Murdoch also publishes the venerable Times and Sunday Times in London and the well-respected Australian, and he is part owner of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. While he has sold the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, he still owns...