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More and more experts now think that additional construction should be discouraged. The Federal Emergency Management Agency imposes building and development codes as a prerequisite for communities to qualify for subsidized flood insurance. In Bailey's Prairie many newer homes were spared serious damage because they were built on higher ground. The trouble is, says Arthur Storey, executive director of the Harris County Flood Control District, "regulations look at worst-case scenarios, but those are always exceeded by nature's storms." And hundreds of thousands of other structures erected before the mid-1970s are not covered by the rules...
...more efficient and cost effective than those of yesteryear. Says J. Michael Davis, chief of renewable- energy programs at the U.S. Department of Energy: "These machines are real and reliable." Today's models are capable of meeting 10% of America's energy demand, and within 30 years, newer versions could provide for a quarter of the nation's power needs. Such figures have re-energized the manufacturers of wind-power equipment and attracted the interest of foreign competitors. Utilities are conducting wind surveys and starting pilot projects. And a new breed of wildcatter is scurrying to buy up wind rights...
...Newer cable outlets are being forced to scrounge ever deeper in the vaults for fresh oldies. Comedy Central, the all-comedy cable network, has resurrected C.P.O. Sharkey, a dog from the mid-'70s starring Don Rickles. Nostalgia Television, a six-year-old network aimed at the "mature" audience, has unearthed such forgotten chestnuts as Date with the Angels, a short-lived '50s sitcom starring Betty White, and The Dennis O'Keefe Show, a one-season wonder from...
...Gaines said some of the newer University buildings were not as aesthetically pleasing...
...restaurant employee says that many of the locals traditionally favor certain spots. But because of an absence of interaction and sense of community among the races in this multicultural region, few locals are willing to try out the newer places...