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...memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you're sorry. In traditional China, the old widow recalls, "a woman had no right to be angry...
Zillions, based in Mount Vernon, N.Y., started life in 1980 as a less ambitious magazine called Penny Power but was revamped and renamed last year. Says editor Charlotte Baecher, a onetime high school English teacher: "We realized that the magazine could be doing a lot more." She expanded reviews, advice columns and increased the number of products being tested. The magazine, she says, tells kids, "Look, we know what's going on in your world. We know you've got zillions of pressures, and we're going to help you sort them...
...supported Orlando's economy is likely to be the miniature orange trees "that really bear fruit" sold in souvenir shops. In the past 20 years at least four of the city's main thoroughfares have become cluttered with fast-food joints, gift shops, motels, hotels and gas stations that mount a neon assault ($2.99 FOR MICKEY MOUSE!) on passersby. On some strips, condominiums and steak houses have been put up a few yards from pastures where cows are still grazing...
...finance a building frenzy that dumped thousands of new rooms on an already glutted market, with disastrous results. Six of every ten hotels in the U.S. aren't able to make a penny in profit, says Bjorn Hanson, an industry expert with the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm. As losses mount, so do loan defaults, which have forced lenders to foreclose on a record number of ailing properties. More than 3,000 have reverted to lenders in the past three years, and experts expect an additional 7,000 to be repossessed in the next 24 months...
...Page One hype last week in the Post, breaks little new ground about the war itself. Woodward devotes only his final six pages to the actual fighting, and hardly mentions such things as allied targeting procedures for the air war, the failure of Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard to mount a serious counterattack, and the Pentagon's success at using its unprecedented control over press coverage to win public acceptance of the war. Omissions of that kind seem all the more glaring in a book written by a co-star of the Post's legendary Watergate investigation...