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...late 1800s and old city directories to locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...
...people think kids today are more spoiled than kids of 10 or 15 years ago, and two-thirds of parents admit that their kids are spoiled. In New York City it's the Bat Mitzvah where 'N Sync was the band; in Houston it's a catered $20,000 pink-themed party for 50 seven-year-old girls who all wore mink coats, like their moms. In Morton Grove, Ill., it's grade school teachers handing out candy and yo-yos on Fridays to kids who actually managed to obey the rules that week. Go to the mall...
...walking with EUDORA WELTY through a little shopping mall. It was her birthday, April 13. There was a surprise party waiting at a bookstore down the way. She was 86. As we walked rather slowly along the glass storefronts, we came to where a wide, smiling, pink-faced man was inflating colorful balloons. As each balloon filled and fattened, the cylinder emitted quite a loud whoosh of air. Eudora looked about to find the sound. "Balloons," I said. I had her hand. "Someone's apparently having a do." "Oh," she said. Those luminous, pale blue eyes igniting, her magical face...
...Segue to Striver's Row and this artfully appointed store carrying women's garments in sizes 2 to 22. Carefully chosen designs retail from $40 to custom wear at $500. A hot pink sequined top by Custo of Barcelona ($88) was only one of the "just right" accessories and fashion. Ask about upcoming shopping tours of Harlem...
...else in the world who is better at buying airplanes and running a successful financial operation." For his people person, Neeleman chose the only executive who ever fired him. That was Ann Rhoades, who helped develop the airline industry's happiest employee group at Southwest. But in 1994 she pink-slipped Neeleman after Southwest bought Morris Air, another low-price airline he had started...