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...June and July. "The textbook definition of recession doesn't matter," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "The economy is so weak that it looks like a recession to an awful lot of people." Declares Rose Marie Moore, who was recently laid off from a Massachusetts textile mill: "I'm nervous and scared. I've had my job for 10 years, and now I'm going to have to find another one. It's rough...
...Chicago, it will lead you to a dilapidated housing project built atop a former landfill whose fetid odors still rise from the basements after more than 60 years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...
Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
...recommendation from Pitts could save the mill. As the sole architectural historian working for the National Park Service's history division, she decides what structures should be considered National Historic Landmarks. Pitts walks through the mill's vast, empty work space and taps a few dusty columns. Her verdict: "I think I'm playing with fire, but I'm still going to try to landmark...
John McCarthy, executive director of the Association of Quality Clubs, reports that 25% of his 1,550 member clubs offer seminars in nutrition, stress management and smoking cessation; 25% have weight-loss programs; and 12% provide courses in self-esteem. Among the more adventurous is the Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y., which conducts lectures on self-healing and hypnosis and occasionally brings in a sex therapist for a panel discussion...