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Maurizio Cardano, a city councilman in Naples, where housing is in such short supply that many newlyweds have to live with their parents, had an idea. Why not set aside a few acres of police-protected parkland overlooking the Bay of Naples as a giardino dell'eros, or love garden, where young couples could park their cars and safely enjoy a bit of privacy? But Cardano's suggestion has drawn a storm of protest, especially from the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic weekly grumbled that it would "legitimize fornication and extramarital adventures." Corrado Cardinal Ursi told a crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Storm Over a Love Garden | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...coast. "Ronald Reagan has declared war on the city of Chicago," fumed Mayor Harold Washington. The President's "dastardly" budget, exclaimed Budd Bell, head of the Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs as being likely to produce "short-term gains and long-term tragedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! This Will Hurt | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Residents of an affluent Boston suburb voted overwhelmingly last night to purchase $3.5 million worth of parkland from Harvard's Arnold Arboretum for $3.5 million dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weston Votes to Buy University Property | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...stem the tide of this current wave of apathy and jump right into maintaining our parkland...

Author: By T. CHARLES River, | Title: Weeping River | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

Last spring those same Brattle St. benefactors prevented a nearby garden store from closing this precious little space of parkland. They realized what I've known for a long time: Riverbend Park is as valuable as liquid capital...

Author: By T. CHARLES River, | Title: Weeping River | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

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