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...France, the payoff is plain: as many as 30,000 new jobs will be created by Disney, and tourists will spend millions of francs on French businesses as part of their travels to Euro Disneyland. In the neighborhood of Marne-La- Vallee, 12,000 houses and apartments will be built, along with new schools and stores. The tiny (pop. 925) village of Serris, many of whose resident are elderly or retired, is bracing itself for the arrival of Euro Disneyland nearby. Says Mayor Philippe Mancel: "One realizes it's a lost cause to be against Euro Disneyland. Once Disney starts...
...People aren't eating out less," says Ronald Paul, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based market-research firm. "They are just seeking better value." If, as the French gourmand Brillat-Savarin observed, you are what you eat, these days Americans are down-home, comfortable, just plain folks -- but not to be taken for granted...
...doctors bought the pitch, and the new drug became the favored method of breaking up clots in heart-attack victims. Then last week an international team of researchers reported what some doctors had suspected all along: the fancy new medication appears to be no better at saving lives than plain old streptokinase. In fact, it seems to carry a slightly greater risk of causing strokes...
Even when Kuwaitis try to forget the tragedies, they cannot escape reminders of the occupation. The sky is what everyone notices first each morning. When the wind blows toward Kuwait City, the sky darkens as if a storm were moving across the plain. At times, night appears at noon. The oil fires are that horrendous. There is no electricity, the result of last-minute Iraqi sabotage. Few believe the repeated assurances that at least some electricity will return "tomorrow." Too many tomorrows have passed...
...voluble theories are, his Suprematist paintings are as decisive as razors: those forceful, exquisite arrangements of planes, asserting their aesthetic self- sufficiency on a white ground (which was also the celestial white background of Moscow icons) have an almost heroic daring, which he would push still further in the plain black crosses and black squares...