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As a result of that change in attitude, Costa Rica has become a haven for refugees from the Sandinista regime, a role that has not gone unnoticed in Nicaragua. In recent weeks, Sandinista-inspired agents have been arming and instigating Costa Rican squatters to take over land in the area...
On some frigid day in February, all the officials closet themselves together to study 20 different piles of folders to "make tentative assessments," Fitzsimmons says, adding that in the first week of April, all 12 groups merge. They then proceed to admit all the students they want, pretending there is...
As an economic entity, greater Los Angeles is world class: if the area seceded, it would have a G.N.P. larger than that of Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000...
Almost all the new entries into the exercise market seem to lift off like a Saturn booster, find their target, fall back a little and make piles of money for their inventors. Nike of Beaverton, Ore., first hit it big manufacturing running shoes (1982 footwear sales: $580 million). In 1980...
But given the choice, most people would really prefer more bright piles of cocaine. "It doesn't seem to be a drug of moderation," says Schiavone, the Miami fashion photographer. Another Miamian, Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, the former Dolphins' football star who just began serving a 20-year term for dealing...