Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Lina Lofaro, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Anneke Tryzelaar and Sidney Urquhart
...privatizers are politicians. Since public-housing tenants assumed control of the notorious Abbottsford Homes in Philadelphia in 1991, rent collections have jumped from 70% to 90%, while calls to the police are down 30%. In Florida residents of the mixed-income Riverside Park neighborhood near Fort Lauderdale form volunteer crews to repave sidewalks, create parks and plant trees rescued from the path of highway construction. Says volunteer coordinator Tom Andrew: ``We're not waiting for the government to help...
...quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost a dress rehearsal for an earthquake on the Hayward fault in the East...
...fully capable of producing tremors up to a magnitude of 7.5, or about 15 times the energy of the 20-second Northridge quake. What would happen if that pulse roared for 40 or 50 seconds--higher-magnitude quakes typically shudder for 60 seconds or more--through the Elysian Park fault under downtown Los Angeles? ``The only way to get a full picture of how buildings react in an earthquake is to have one,'' says Thomas Heaton, a Geological Survey seismologist. But computer simulations undertaken by Heaton and collaborators show that steel- frame high-rises could have their feet kicked...
...best, as usual, before big crowds, twirling his cane like a baton and tapping his crozier on the ground to the beat of the music. No assembly was bigger than the one in Manila, where an estimated 3 million to 4 million people attended Mass in Luneta Park. The scene was so chaotic that the Pope had to change plans and arrived by helicopter, an hour and a half late. A smaller but more colorful turnout welcomed him in Papua New Guinea, where he presided over the beatification--a prelude to sainthood--of lay catechist Peter...