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...their Parisian peers await each new Guide Michelin. Zagat has extended his restaurant guides to ten other U.S. metropolitan areas (including Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans) and a two-volume hotel survey covering the Eastern and Western states. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City and the Pacific Northwest will soon have their own Zagats, identical in format (4 in. by 8 1/2 in., with burgundy covers) and price ($9.95). So will London, as Zagat goes international starting next year...
Some sort of compromise is inevitable. It would be unthinkable to shut down overnight the Northwest's logging industry. But as the area of old-growth forest land dwindles, it is increasingly indefensible to cut down trees that were centuries in the making. Tight limits on logging are necessary so that the Northwest will move faster to diversify its economy...
...Another Northwest DC-10 turned back to Detroit immediately after takeoff because the flap controls were not working properly. By week's end many anxious travelers were avoiding bookings on DC-10s. Addressing the fears, Federal Aviation Administrator James Busey maintained that there is no evidence that DC-10s are less safe than other airliners...
...electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock to reap quick profits from disparities in price between the equities and futures markets. Restrictions on program trading were imposed...
Their annual spawning is a sight so bizarre that it draws voyeurs from distant lands to the sandy shores some twelve miles northwest of Cape May, N.J. Lugging cameras, British journalists fly here to film the fecund scene. Japanese scientists gawk at the colossal display of concupiscence. American entrepreneurs profit from it. Biologists study it, and schoolchildren puzzle over it. Oblivious, the crabs just do their primal thing...