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...hope after the next inevitable ``big one'' we won't be saying ``Shoganai'' but ``Gambarimashita'' (We did our best). Nik Hall Miyagi, Japan As a resident of Kobe, I thank God that my family is safe. But as time passes, my anger grows. The earthquake is not anyone's fault, but the high number of deaths could have been avoided. Before 6 a.m. on the day of the quake, everything shook, and although my family was fine, I could see parts of Kobe were on fire. I was sure the city would be getting immediate help. But the Japanese defense...
...Nik Smith, a photo-supply manager, recalls how he once lived overlooking a brick alley near Chicago's downtown Loop. That was before the alley was stolen. "Every three nights or so, somebody would take about 50 bricks," says Smith. "It stopped only when the city paved it over." Each day bricks from abandoned buildings and old alleys in Midwestern cities are pilfered, sold and shipped out of town on boxcars. Ultimately they end up in Sunbelt states, where there is great demand for used brick. "They're advertising homes built with Chicago brick," says John Dean...
...Nik Cohn's arrest last week, for conspiracy to import heroin and cocaine and for distributing both drugs, did not quite shock his friends. Cohn, 37, who wrote the magazine article on which the film Saturday Night Fever was based, led a night-crawling, drug-charged life in Manhattan. Said his lawyer, Andrew Maloney: "Mr. Cohn is no more than what too many other people are these days, an abuser of controlled substances. But he's not a trafficker." The Drug Enforcement Administration, after a five-month investigation that included hundreds of wiretapped telephone conversations, claims otherwise. Accused...
Mashhadi Mohammed Nik-Dehghan, 39, lives in Lashkar-Abad, a farming village (150 families, most of them related) 75 miles from Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's family was struggling until the Shah launched his land reform in 1963. The family received 125 acres under a complicated system that bars it from subdividing the land into small, uneconomic plots but provides a good income. Mashhadi Nik-Dehghan's crop of grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self...
Ever since the pay toilet was banned by the New York State legislature last year, Nik-O-Lok Co. of Indianapolis, which markets the device and collects some 25% of the revenue, has been working to regain its lost business. One solution: a device that enables gas stations to charge 25? for the use of an air hose to pump up a tire. Said Nik-O-Lok Manager Martin Miller: "If you think air is free, try blowing up a tire with your mouth...