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...maureen resort to hiring Billy Snoddy, a working man who was Maureen's only other childhood boyfriend, to play the part of surrogate. Snoddy is a thoroughly creepy character who, after discovering Kevin and Maureen in bed together, can only relish his knowledge and position. He becomes more noxious to Kevin when Maureen learns that her pregnancy was a false alarm...
Loads of tourists invade the privacy of residents, damage streets, create noxious fumes and endanger children, says Kenneth Williams, the attorney for Beverly Hills. "If people want to see something, they'll see it anyway," retorts Vahit Sapir, president of Starline Sightseeing Tours. "If they don't go by bus, they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand...
...dawn of time. Says Lewis Lipsitt, director of the Child Study Center at Brown and a pioneer in research on babies: "The human infant is extremely well coordinated and put together for accomplishing the tasks of infancy. These are: sustenance, maintaining contact with other people, and defending itself against noxious stimulation...
...prices are impossibly high (more than $100 per sq. ft. in suburban Tokyo). Newly married couples despair of ever owning a house (a typical two-room Tokyo apartment measuring 400 sq. ft. costs more than $83,000). The clutter of Japanese life is not only difficult, it is sometimes noxious. Lakes and swamps are polluted. For a people with an exquisite and even rhapsodic appreciation of nature, the Japanese are capable of casually littering and ravaging...
...area's problems first surfaced four years ago, when noxious gases from burning chemicals at a series of industrial fires felled both fire fighters and bystanders. There were also reports of workers who suffered adverse reactions to chemicals at microchip firms. One 19-year-old, hired to work around storage tanks at a semiconductor company, began vomiting uncontrollably after less than a week...